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Originally Posted by N90
False. Since 2010 Harris County has added 606k people. That's more people in that county than the entire Seattle CSA has added since 2010. And btw, that's more people than all of the suburban Houston counties put together (~ 480k in the suburban counties).
I don't know if Houston is densifying at Seattle rates because Seattle is seeing a massive uptick right in the core whereas for Houston it is spread throughout the inner loop and areas west of there but your statement about most (if not all) the growth outside Harris County is wrong. For 2 years during the oil bust the suburban counties grew faster and that's it. DT Houston has quadrupled its population and housing in just this decade and it still pales in comparison to the changes made in Midtown, Montrose, Museum district, upper kirby, greenway, uptown, etc inside the loop. But for this thread, Seattle probably is the fastest urbanizing city in the US this decade.
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Harris County is big though, how much of that was in the northwest corner along the Grand Parkway and going up towards Tomball? It's still mostly greenfield sprawl.
What remains to be seen is what happens to areas that are outside the 610 loop but inside the Beltway or at most with Hwy 6/FM 1960. Beyond the core inner loop gentrification areas I am not seeing much evidence of middle ring suburban growth beyond a few specific parts of West Houston.