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Originally Posted by ILUVSAT
It's dangerous to assume something from a single data point!
According to the U.S. Census (estimates), Austin's city proper has grown by an average of 2.9% per year since 2010 - Ft. Worth, 2.56%. Also, raw growth also favors Austin during this timeframe: 160,325 vs. 132,962, respectively. So, no, Ft. Worth will not overtake Austin, in city population, anytime soon.
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Fort Worth has plans to annex about 1,500 acres or 2.34 square miles between 2018 and 2022. There are approximately another 1,000 acres of land where developers have requested annexation into the city of Fort Worth. Some of these requests will expire during that same time frame. In short, the days when Fort Worth was doing large scale annexation may be over. The new state laws governing annexation are also having a significant impact on future annexations. Fort Worth does have large swaths of undeveloped land already in the existing city limits that are likely to be built out (especially in the northern and southwestern reaches of the city) in the coming years. I think Fort Worth will continue to lag behind Austin in population, but it could be close if current growth rates continue.