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View Poll Results: Do you think Houston Metropolitan Area (MSA) will get above 8 Million by 2030?
Yes 47 85.45%
No 6 10.91%
Other (Please specify) 2 3.64%
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Old 11-26-2010, 10:50 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Houston Metropolitan Area (MSA):
Houston Metropolitan Area (MSA) Population on August 4th, 2010: 6,022,719
Houston Metropolitan Area (MSA) Population on November 15th: 6,063,453
Difference: 40,734 New People in 3 Months and 11 days

Comparatively to Elsewhere in The Country:

Philadelphia Metropolitan Area (MSA) Population on August 4th, 2010: 6,000,904
Philadelphia Metropolitan Area (MSA) Population on November, 15th, 2010: 6,009,363
Difference: 8,459 New People in 3 months and 11 days

Chicago Metropolitan Area (MSA) Population on August 4th, 2010: 9,641,146
Chicago Metropolitan Area (MSA) Population on November 15th, 2010: 9,656,846
Difference: 15,700 New People in 3 months and 11 days

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (MSA) Population on August 4th, 2010: 12,931,077
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (MSA) Population on November 15th, 2010: 12,945,645
Difference: 14,568 New People in 3 months and 11 days

Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area (MSA) Population on August 4th, 2010: 6,618,405
Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area (MSA) Population on November 15th, 2010: 6,663,224
Difference: 44,819 New People in 3 months and 11 days

Atlanta Metropolitan Area (MSA) Population on August 4th, 2010: 5,620,829
Atlanta Metropolitan Area (MSA) Population on November 15th, 2010: 5,659,044
Difference: 38,215 New People in 3 months and 11 days

Source August 4th, 2010: Buffalo hangs on to 50th place | Business First
Source November 15th, 2010: Metro populations (Nov. 15, 2010) | Business First

(Same source for both)

Houston City (Year by year):
Houston on July 2000: 1,977,811
Houston on July 2001: 1,994,316
Houston on July 2002: 2,012,297
Houston on July 2003: 2,032,955
Houston on July 2004: 2,058,645
Houston on July 2005: 2,076,189
Houston on July 2006: 2,169,248
Houston on July 2007: 2,206,573
Houston on July 2008: 2,238,183
Houston on July 2009: 2,257,926
Houston on November 2010: 2,306,455
Difference: 328,644 Population Increase from 2000 to 2010

Source: City populations (Nov. 22, 2010) | Business First
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Old 11-26-2010, 11:13 PM
 
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Most definitely. I predict Houston will grow by 1.6M this decade bringing the pop to 7.6M by 2020.

I predict 8.9M by 2030.
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Old 11-26-2010, 11:24 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Most definitely. I predict Houston will grow by 1.6M this decade bringing the pop to 7.6M by 2020.

I predict 8.9M by 2030.
By 2020, Houston's Metropolitan Area population in the exact same boundaries as Philadelphia will be larger than Philadelphia's.

Also by 2020 Houston will:
- Surpass Philadelphia in Urban Area
- Surpass Philadelphia in DMA
- Surpass Philadelphia in CSA (Actually by 2015 it will)

And it will be a solid # 5 Metropolitan Area by terms of MSA & UA.
By 2025 it will be a solid # 5 Metropolitan Area by terms of CSA (It will have to surpass Boston which is 7.6 Million presently)

By 2020, Houston will by far and away be larger and more powerful than it is now.
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Old 11-27-2010, 08:18 AM
 
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I thought Atlanta's growth was slowing? It's growing just as much as Houston?????? What were all of these people saying about Atlanta's slow growth? I can't believe everything unless these are just estimates for everyone.
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Old 11-27-2010, 06:38 PM
 
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I thought Atlanta's growth was slowing? It's growing just as much as Houston?????? What were all of these people saying about Atlanta's slow growth? I can't believe everything unless these are just estimates for everyone.

Atlanta and Dallas Had the highest growth rates between 2000 and 2010. Houston will always be ahead of Atlanta in metro population. But the reason why people said Atlanta growth was slowing was because we used to see growth rates at between 120,000 to 140,000 a year that when down to alot.. But the growth slowed but there wasnt a major drop..
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Old 11-27-2010, 06:47 PM
 
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38,000 people in 3 months and 11 days compared to 40,000 in that time frame looks the same to me unless those numbers are wrong.
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Old 11-28-2010, 03:36 PM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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Atlanta and Dallas Had the highest growth rates between 2000 and 2010. Houston will always be ahead of Atlanta in metro population. But the reason why people said Atlanta growth was slowing was because we used to see growth rates at between 120,000 to 140,000 a year that when down to alot.. But the growth slowed but there wasnt a major drop..
That's growth in raw numbers, not growth rates.
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Old 11-28-2010, 08:39 PM
 
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I'm just gone wait until the 2010 census because these numbers are schocking compared to the 2009 census.
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Old 11-29-2010, 11:36 AM
 
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I'm just gone wait until the 2010 census because these numbers are schocking compared to the 2009 census.
lol, you are confusing a lot of things.

I think you are imagining Atlanta's growth to have turned into a rate of decline.

ATlanta isn't hurting. It is just that ATl's growth was at breakneck speed earlier in the decade. it was right up there with Dallas, and faster than Houston.

But just because it has tapped its brakes a little doesn't mean it is hurting. It is still one of the top 10 fastest growing large metros (maybe top 5), the slowing down means it is just not one of the stop 2 anymore.
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Old 11-29-2010, 11:51 AM
 
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By 2020, Houston's Metropolitan Area population in the exact same boundaries as Philadelphia will be larger than Philadelphia's.

Also by 2020 Houston will:
- Surpass Philadelphia in Urban Area
- Surpass Philadelphia in DMA
- Surpass Philadelphia in CSA (Actually by 2015 it will)

And it will be a solid # 5 Metropolitan Area by terms of MSA & UA.
By 2025 it will be a solid # 5 Metropolitan Area by terms of CSA (It will have to surpass Boston which is 7.6 Million presently)

By 2020, Houston will by far and away be larger and more powerful than it is now.
I bet everyone will be surprised by the UA numbers after this coming census. the UA numbers from 200 were hust a few hundred K smaller than the metro numbers, the UA numbers that they are currently predicting are almost 2M smaller than the metro size. I know that the people who moced to Houston didn't move to rural Brazoria or rural Walker counties so the UA numbers for HOuston needs some serious updating. Paul is gonna have to pick up his jaw after it hits the ground.

CSA I don't really care too much about. The interaction level is just too low. I think it is only relevant in a few metros (Balt-Wash, Bay area, maybe Boston).

for the rest it is just adding a few scraps of population around bigger metro areas. The old CSA definition was more relevant because it had a stronger interaction (It was more like the metro's today).

When you get into DMA, unless you are in advertising, sports etc, it is just not talked about. In fact Paul is the only one I routinely here talk about it.
Most people go by city limits- (especially for governmental purposes; big cities put out the most powerful mayors (My cousin keeps thinking Bloomberg is Governor of New York, everyone knows about Daly, and Guilianni, no one knows about small city governors); and metro areas. You here about cities and Metros all the time, but DMA's and CSAs???? not very often
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