Texas reaches new population milestone 30 million!

[Ledmonkey]

Originally Posted by atadytic19

How is it filled up?

Dallas and Houston urban areas are half the density of LA's urban area. Those two alone at LA's density would be enough to make up the difference. And LA isn't even one of those classically dense cities.

That's the Urban area only, Houston actually has about 700 more people per sq/mile than LA (largely thanks to LA being rather mountainous)

Edit: no that's not even remotely true, i'm not sure what Density wikipedia is referring to actually..... That said a Houston with the Density of LA would have a population of about 22mil

[Need4Camaro]

I could literally write a horror fiction based on a commute along Katy Fwy in a 22 mil population Houston metro.

[atadytic19]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

I could literally write a horror fiction based on a commute along Katy Fwy in a 22 mil population Houston metro.

Then don't commute to or from Katy.
I imagine Fort Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria and Wharton County can handle a lot more growth without being horrible.

Houston metro is 10,000 sq miles and has 7M people.
Harris is only 1,700sq miles and has almost 5M people. That means the other 8,300 square miles have only 2M people. If the rest of the metro gets to only half a dense as Harris County that would add an additon 15M people.

There goes the 22M right there without even adding more people to Harris county. Houston is still building huge Master planned communities and Grand Parkway is the new beltway 8. Manvel is set to explode with new housing, Fulshear is like the fastest growing suburb in Texas. The Woodlands is basically a whole other city now and developing its own burbs. Pearland went from nothing to the 3rd largest municipality in the metro.

Densifying the loop and implementing better public transit would also free up highway congestion.

I'm not saying that Houston will be 22M, the point is there's lots of room in Texas and it didn't have to be California dense to get up to California population. Texas lacks the mountains so it just has tons more space to build.

[TheOverdog]

Harris is only 1,700sq miles and has almost 5M people.

Houston itself is 670 sq miles at 2.5m, denser than the rest of Harris County.

But Houston proper is not even the densest city in Texas, not even close, and it trails dominating metros like Minneapolis MN, Detroit MI, and Hartford CT in urban density. If Houston was the densest city in Texas, it would be at 5000 people per sq mile like Highland Park, (or 4000 like Garland and Arlington if 5000 people is too small a comparison vs Houston) so about 3.5m. If it got to 'average city density' - 7000 per sq mile, Houston proper could double in population.



NYC and LA are generally far more dense than 'average city density', so it's so different as to be a moot comparison.

[rynetwo]

Originally Posted by TheOverdog

Houston itself is 670 sq miles at 2.5m, denser than the rest of Harris County.

But Houston proper is not even the densest city in Texas, not even close, and it trails dominating metros like Minneapolis MN, Detroit MI, and Hartford CT in urban density. If Houston was the densest city in Texas, it would be at 5000 people per sq mile like Highland Park, (or 4000 like Garland and Arlington if 5000 people is too small a comparison vs Houston) so about 3.5m. If it got to 'average city density' - 7000 per sq mile, Houston proper could double in population.



NYC and LA are generally far more dense than 'average city density', so it's so different as to be a moot comparison.

Well they are, but one outshines the other by a mile.