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Originally Posted by Sun Belt
If Chicago stays at their current population and Houston continues to grow slowly, then Houston will surpass Chicago in 2067.
Chicago pop: 2,716,450
Houston pop: 2,312,717
difference of: 403,733
divided by low growth - 8,000 people per year = 50.46 years
If Houston has the combined total of Dallas + Ft. Worth type growth then by 2028.
403,733/37,599 = 10.73 years
If Houston has high San Antonio-like growth then by the year 2034
403,733/24,208 = 16.67 years
Houston will pass Chicago between the years of 2028 and 2068, most likely in the 2040s if Chicago stays constant.
If Chicago grows to 3,000,000, then Houston could pass it by 2045 in a San Antonio like growth scenario.
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City limits are a poor measure. We should all know that Houston city limits are much larger in size than most every other city in America save Anchorage or the famed skyline of Jacksonville Florida with their esteemed bridges that are lit up at night. The MSA or metro region is a better way of determine the true size and influence of our great megalopolises.
Hell MSP, DC, Boston, San Fran and many more have smallish city boundaries and their gravity and population is not limited to only the city limits
I mean ???
Houston city limits are in Sq miles is huge. Cook county is smaller in square miles than Harris county and is more populous. Hell Indianapolis and Phoenix have larger city boundaries than the City of Chicago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_area#
Houston has the largest city bounderies than any city in the USA over 1 million people. Way more than even NYC.
2/3rds of Chicagoland residents do not live in the city limits of Chicago BTW.
Chicago also has these smaller counties in its metro area.
Chicago-Aurora-Joliet, IL Metropolitan Division (7,998,257)
Cook County (5,287,037)
DeKalb County (107,333)
DuPage County (932,541)
Grundy County (48,421)
Kane County (511,892)
Kendall County (104,821)
McHenry County (320,961)
Will County (685,251)
Gary, IN Metropolitan Division (709,265)
Jasper County (IN) (33,520)
Lake County (IN) (496,478)
Newton County (IN) (14,250)
Porter County (IN) (165,017)
Lake County-Kenosha County, IL-WI Metropolitan Division (877,949)
Lake County (IL) (712,567)
Kenosha County (WI) (165,382)
Soon to be Racine WI county too.
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