[ATXboom]

Originally Posted by hookem

You'd think so with all the buildings going up, but I remember we looked at this a couple of years ago, and the issue is that all of Austin's urban core housing is quite expensive.. so the units are occupied by single professionals, smaller families, DINKs, and some second homes even. Dallas and Houston have lower income sections in their urban core which tend to be much more dense; families living in small apartments, etc.

Now West Campus, that density would probably compare.

Yep... last I saw West Campus is the most dense sq mile in the state. (something like 30K). Downtown has to be between 15 and 20 within it's sq mile.