US Census Bureau data for Austin and other cities - Page 26

wwmiv · #**501** Posted **Aug 16, 2021, 2:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by Lobotomizer

When I have some time I'm going to do total pop. and density of the different areas of the city.

Can you please do weighted density for the city and metro area if youre gonna go thru the trouble?

Novacek · #**502** Posted **Aug 16, 2021, 1:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by austin242

What I find interesting is that it looks like South Austin is denser than North Austin.

It's not really a meaningful measure, as census tracts aren't of uniform size.

for instance, 20.06 only has 2809 people, but it's .3 miles.

454 (Domain in north Austin) has twice as many people, but it's 1.9 miles, so it doesn't show up as dense. But if you separate out the completely uninhabited stretches (Pickle, warehouses south of Pickle, etc.) it would be a lot "denser" with the exact same number of people.

drummer · #**503** Posted **Aug 19, 2021, 4:16 PM**

Regarding diversity, Texas as a whole has gotten significantly more diverse, especially in the larger metros. If you slice and dice it, you can write a story and analyze it any way you want. It's also important to note that even with increasing diversity and its fluid ratios among various ethnic groups and subgroups, that doesn't mean that there isn't work to do from the social aspect. I think we all know this, but numbers don't tell the entire story.

I see cultural diversity as a wonderful thing and am glad to see this moving in a positive way across the metro. I also see a lot of opportunities for growth as a society. I'm also love learning languages, trying new foods, and meeting folks with different backgrounds (cultural or otherwise). All of this part is anecdotal, but as someone who has lived overseas for a long time, it's fun to still get to rub shoulders with folks from around the world here at home, even if not as much as before.

Novacek · #**504** Posted **Nov 19, 2021, 10:27 PM**

Looks like Center of Population county level data is finally up. I'm going to sit down sometime and try to figure out what it is for the Austin Metro.

https://www.census.gov/geographies/r...tion.2020.html

For Travis, it's now
+30.314282,-097.748216 (basically Shoal Creek Blvd and 42nd St).

https://www.google.com/search?q=%2B3...client=gws-wiz

in 2010 it was
+30.310250,-097.749981

https://www.google.com/search?q=%2B3...client=gws-wiz

so it moved a few blocks North and a smidge East.

The overall metro should have moved more, I'm still guessing northward.

edit/add:

okay, if I did the calculations correctly (big if) the metro center is now

30.33156345, -97.74086898
So it moved up Burnet Road a bit almost to Koenig.

https://www.google.com/search?q=30.3...client=gws-wiz

ILUVSAT · #**505** Posted **Nov 20, 2021, 3:24 AM**

Have the city official population data sets been released yet? They used to have excel spreadsheets of them.

Thx.

JoninATX · #**506** Posted **Jan 7, 2022, 1:12 AM**

Census undercounts 377k in Texas

Honestly census undercounts alot of states especially Texas. Not surprising that the state now has over 30 million residents.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.new...645002%3famp=1

The ATX · #**507** Posted **Mar 24, 2022, 11:42 PM**

Austin had a healthy population increase during the past year based on today's census release. We're at 2.4 million (when rounded up).
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/pres...-decrease.html

We vs us · #**508** Posted **Mar 25, 2022, 1:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

Austin had a healthy population increase during the past year based on today's census release. We're at 2.4 million (when rounded up).
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/pres...-decrease.html

Making a lot of headway to the 4M by 2040 goal.

Novacek · #**509** Posted **Mar 25, 2022, 3:35 PM**

Just barely behind Pittsburgh for 27th largest metro (we're 2.352, they're 2.353). Undoubtedly we're there by now.

Sacramento is next at 2.411. And we're growing at 5X the rate. We could be past them already. Portland is 25th at 2.511, and flat/shrinking.

A couple more years, and Austin will be a top 25 metro.

AusTex · #**510** Posted **Mar 25, 2022, 3:47 PM**

I am wondering when the City of Austin will hit the Million Mark. Any estimates out there for this to happen?

Novacek · #**511** Posted **Mar 25, 2022, 4:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by AusTex

I am wondering when the City of Austin will hit the Million Mark. Any estimates out there for this to happen?

It looks like the 2021 city estimates come out in May. It seems likely that will show Austin as having already hit 1M. We were a bit short in the 2020 census numbers, but the 2020 estimates had us almost there. With the known undercount issues, we're probably there already.

ILUVSAT · #**512** Posted **Mar 25, 2022, 4:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Novacek

It looks like the 2021 city estimates come out in May. It seems likely that will show Austin as having already hit 1M. We were a bit short in the 2020 census numbers, but the 2020 estimates had us almost there. With the known undercount issues, we're probably there already.

I was just about to ask about the undercount. It was significantly higher in 2020's census than in 2010's.

The release should have updated census numbers - I think.

The ATX · #**513** Posted **Mar 25, 2022, 4:40 PM**

City population will be out in May according to this schedule:

https://www.census.gov/programs-surv.../schedule.html

AusTex · #**514** Posted **Mar 25, 2022, 5:21 PM**

I assume then, that the known undercounts will be corrected in the estimates for 2021. The City of Austin was at 961,855 officially for 2020, which leaves a difference of 38,145 people to hit the Million Mark. We have been exploding in population for 30 years now, however the known undercounts need to be pretty high to get us the full way. But, I do not know the extent of what they will include either.

One Million in Population for just The City of Austin is just breath, taking since 30 years ago the whole 5 county metro area only had around 850,000 folks living here. Now we are just below 2.4 million. Astounding!

JoninATX · #**515** Posted **May 21, 2022, 1:17 PM**

The U.S. census estimates it missed more than a half-million Texans during 2020 count

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By Alexa Ura May 19, 2022

Tripped up by politics and the pandemic — and with only a last-minute investment in promotion by the state — the 2020 census likely undercounted the Texas population by roughly 2%, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday.

The once-a-decade national count put Texas’ official population at 29,145,505 after it gained the most residents of any state in the last decade, earning two additional congressional seats. In a post-count analysis using survey results from households, the bureau estimated that the count for people living in Texas households — a slightly smaller population than the total population — failed to find more than half a million residents. That’s the equivalent of missing the entire populations of Lubbock, Laredo and then some.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05...as-undercount/

Novacek · #**516** Posted **May 27, 2022, 11:17 AM**

Something seems to be seriously wrong with the census estimates.

They have Austin only growing by 1000 people from 2020 to 2021.

I think we had 10x that many new housing units.

https://www2.census.gov/programs-sur...21-POP-48.xlsx

lonewolf · #**517** Posted **May 27, 2022, 1:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by JoninATX

The U.S. census estimates it missed more than a half-million Texans during 2020 count

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05...as-undercount/

are they blaming the states they overcounted by more than 5% on too much state promotion? (rhetorical question)

yikes what a mess

Jdawgboy · #**518** Posted **May 27, 2022, 1:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by Novacek

Something seems to be seriously wrong with the census estimates.

They have Austin only growing by 1000 people from 2020 to 2021.

I think we had 10x that many new housing units.

https://www2.census.gov/programs-sur...21-POP-48.xlsx

Yea there's something off about this number. I feel like that many people moved into my neighborhood in that time.

drummer · #**519** Posted **May 27, 2022, 2:05 PM**

To add to that, Georgetown is up to 75K in the city limits according to a 2022 estimate, up from 67K in 2020. Probably significantly higher since Georgetown has a lot of pockets of neighborhoods that are technically in Williamson County and not the city.

https://www.kvue.com/article/money/e...7-a0bc33aececa

Georgetown is stated to have had a growth rate of 10.5% from 2020 to 2022. I wonder what Austin's really was...probably slightly more than 1,000 people from 2020 to 2021.

ILUVSAT · #**520** Posted **May 27, 2022, 3:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Novacek

Something seems to be seriously wrong with the census estimates.

They have Austin only growing by 1000 people from 2020 to 2021.

I think we had 10x that many new housing units.

https://www2.census.gov/programs-sur...21-POP-48.xlsx

Yep. That's BS! The city of San Antonio did not grow more than 13x faster than the city of Austin during that one single year.

It also says Nashville lost almost 11,000 during that year. Now way that happened!

Also, didn't they estimate Austin's city population to be just under 980,000 as of July 1, 2019? What the heck happened there?