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Originally Posted by clubtokyo
Honestly I thought fort worth was already higher population, I guess in my mind I think of DFW and the massive metro population and just assumed.
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It was for a while, but Austin passed it sometime between 1980 and 1990. Fort Worth actually lost population during 1980 with a 2.1 percent drop, and Austin's population growth was double what Fort Worth's was from the 1990 and 2000 census. The 2010 census had Fort Worth nearly double what Austin's was. I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibility of Fort Worth passing Austin again, but it'll be a while. The 2017 estimate has us growing a little less than 3 percent faster.
Of course, we're only talking about city populations. I think Fort Worth has always had a higher metro population.