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Originally Posted by dktshb
Interesting Austin gets attention but its numbers are sort of Meh. Denver seems to be way ahead with a downtown half the size and 3 times as dense.
Denver Downtown ---------------------- 15,198 ------- 7,998 ------ 4,181 ------ 2,795 ---- 90.0% ---- 91.3% --- 49.6% ------- 2.3 km² --- 6,736.7 inh./km²
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7,352 of Austin's downtown population lives in two census tracts, 11.02 and 11.03, with a total area of 1.3 square kilometers. That's 5,655.4 inh./sqkm. Lower downtown along the riverfront is where most of the residential buildings are located.
And as stated previously, there are a couple thousand more in tract 12 that is very much downtown in an extremely small area not included in these numbers.
I'd estimate close to 10,000 downtown residents live in the area bound by 6th St., I-35, the Colorado River, and Lamar Blvd., an area no bigger than 1.5 square kilometers or so.
And Austin is still building a lot of new towers. Like a whole lot. Check back in about ten years and see how we're looking.
Until then, I think we're doing pretty well. Glad to see Denver is as well.