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Old 05-28-2015, 03:54 PM
 
Location: Upper Kirby, Houston, TX
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Houston will overtake Dallas/Ft. Worth MTA population in the next 10 years.

 
Old 05-28-2015, 04:41 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Houston will overtake Dallas/Ft. Worth MTA population in the next 10 years.
Doubtful. DFW is still growing faster.
 
Old 05-28-2015, 08:32 PM
 
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An anchor on a a cable news station called Houston, Dallas, and Austin the three largest cities in Texas. Even if you're looking at the metros, San Antonio is still a lot more populous than Austin.
 
Old 05-28-2015, 08:54 PM
 
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An anchor on a a cable news station called Houston, Dallas, and Austin the three largest cities in Texas. Even if you're looking at the metros, San Antonio is still a lot more populous than Austin.
Atlanta is smaller than Austin,Ft.worth and el paso.........As funny as this sounds it is the very reason city poulations never matter.
 
Old 05-28-2015, 09:24 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Doubtful. DFW is still growing faster.
Are you sure of that ?
 
Old 05-28-2015, 09:46 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Are you sure of that ?
Houston so far has grown by 594,000 and DFW has grown by 528,000. These two cities usually take turns on who is growing the fastest so I was wrong on that part. But that's still not enough for Houston to overtake DFW in the next 10 years.
 
Old 05-28-2015, 09:54 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Houston so far has grown by 594,000 and DFW has grown by 528,000. These two cities usually take turns on who is growing the fastest so I was wrong on that part. But that's still not enough for Houston to overtake DFW in the next 10 years.
Houston doesn't have to overtake DFW in actual population to remain the more important Texas Metro. It only needs to maintain rough equivalency which it will. DFW is still bifurcated into two metro divisions and as much as they see themselves as one it is not a perfect union.

It was as recently as 1980 that Houston was more populous than DFW according to the US Census. It could happen again but I doubt it will happen by the 2020 census but I doubt in 1970 DFW thought it would be more populous than Greater Houston according to the US Census in 1990...
 
Old 05-28-2015, 09:55 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Houston doesn't have to overtake DFW in actual population to remain the more important Texas Metro. It only needs to maintain rough equivalency which it will. DFW is still bifurcated into two metro divisions and as much as they see themselves as one it is not a perfect union....
It's still one metro and the response was Houston will pass DFW within 10 years which I disagreed with.
 
Old 05-28-2015, 10:00 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Houston doesn't have to overtake DFW in actual population to remain the more important Texas Metro. It only needs to maintain rough equivalency which it will. DFW is still bifurcated into two metro divisions and as much as they see themselves as one it is not a perfect union.

It was as recently as 1980 that Houston was more populous than DFW according to the US Census. It could happen again but I doubt it will happen by the 2020 census but I doubt in 1970 DFW thought it would be more populous than Greater Houston according to the US Census in 1990...
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It's still one metro and the response was Houston will pass DFW within 10 years which I disagreed with.
I edited the post you replied too, so you may want to take those additional thoughts into consideration
 
Old 05-29-2015, 01:33 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Except that cities, not metro areas, determine tax rates, street expansion and quality, budgets for schools, what regulations pass, police & fire protection, etc. All that stuff matters and means a lot. Besides, this post is about specific cities. If you want to compare metro numbers, then either post them or create a separate thread.
Does the city really determine all of that? I thought the county would have some power. More so, I thought the school budgets would he set by the school districts or at least a council since in Texas school districts don't match city borders, often even encompassing parts of multiple cities.

I can imagine Austin growing to be bigger than Dallas, though not for at least one or two decades bar any freak incidents, but not really Fort Worth. It is growing at a slightly faster rate but by absolute terms is still less than Dallas.
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