Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas
So, besides just checking out the populations within a 62 mile radius of Texas' cities and displaying them, it was interesting seeing the population density differences between East Texas and West Texas. It's funny because, despite the fact that West Texas has more large cities, the territory between them is more sparsely populated. So while East Texas has fewer big cities than West Texas, it actually has higher populations spread over it with more smaller cities spread around it.
Add Radius manually : Radius 100 km OR 62.14 miles Location :
Central Texas
San Antonio - 2,057,675
Austin - 1,962,704
Killeen - 1,840,140 - this includes portions of Austin and Waco's metros as well as the City of Temple and the US army base Fort Hood.
Waco - 922,406
San Angelo - 156,899
Brady - 125,905 - Brady is the city closest to Texas' geographic center, located about 15 miles southwest of the middle of Texas.
East Texas
Houston - 5,182,030
Galveston - 3,942,205
College Station - 1,140,636 - this includes the nearby twin city of Bryan, Texas, but this also includes extreme parts of Austin and Houston's metro areas as well as part of Waco's metro. College Station is geographically located roughly in the middle of the "Texas triangle" region - the area between Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston.
Orange - 774,352 - this includes the Beaumont metro in Texas, and also the Lake Charles metro in Louisiana. Orange is the farthest east city in Texas, located along I-10, about 120 miles east of Houston.
Nacogdoches - 627,040
Beaumont - 983,370 - this includes parts of Houston's metro and all of Lake Charles, Louisiana
North Texas
Dallas - 5,792,591
Fort Worth - 5,606,171
Wichita Falls - 423,375
Northeast Texas
Longview - 1,103,018 - this includes all of Tyler, Texas, and also most of Shreveport, Louisiana's metro.
Tyler - 933,694
Texarkana, Texas - 483,443 - this includes Texarkana, Arkansas, of course, but also part of Shreveport, Louisiana's metro.
Panhandle
Lubbock - 415,011
Amarillo - 361,090
South Texas
Brownsville - 1,943,990 - includes Harlingen, which is part of its metro, along with the cities of McAllen and Edinburg, South Padre Island, and Reynas and Matamoras, Mexico.
Laredo - 630,033 - includes Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
Corpus Christi - 563,056
Southeast Texas
Victoria - 334,673
Southwest Texas
Del Rio - 322,177
West Texas
El Paso - 2,428,998 - includes Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and Las Cruces, New Mexico metros.
Midland - 366,722 - includes the twin city of Odessa.
Odessa - 344,799 - includes Midland
Big Spring - 343,660 - includes the Midland/Odessa metro and part of San Angelo's metro.
Abilene - 264,424
Least populated within 100km
Van Horn - 19,933 - located in Culberson County in West Texas between Sierra Blanca, Texas, and Pecos, Texas about halfway between Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Davis Mountains State Park. The two nearest cities are El Paso, 120 miles to the west, and Odessa, 163 miles to the northeast.
Most populated within 100km
Dallas - 5,792,591
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