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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas
I'm not sure, but if they're using the official definition of the downtown boundaries, then the UT Campus would not be included. The Capitol Complex is part of downtown, but UT is officially not part of downtown. UT supposedly employs around 20,000 people with another 50,000 students. So the core of Austin potentially has a daytime population of around 190,000 to 200,000, or a little more than 20% of the city's population.
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I think a frequently used metric is the area within a one mile radius of 6th and Congress, and that would include some (Main Bldg.) of the UT campus. There is no way that 123,000 people work in the approximately 9 to 11 million square feet of commercial office space located downtown. Add state government workers in the vicinity of the capitol and most of the 20,000 plus UT employees, and the 123,000 number seems plausible. Downtown Houston with four or five times the amount of commercial office space has about 140,000 workers according to the downtownhouston.org website. Downtown Dallas, or the expanded Dallas "central business district", also has about 140,000 employees housed in four or five times the amount of commercial office space. The Dallas figure is from the downtown Dallas Wiki page. Another site claims that Austin has a downtown daytime population of close to 200,000. That figure would have to include the UT student population to have any claim to the truth.