Houston Grows 156,000 (Dallas, San Antonio, Austin: 2015, employment, living)

[SouthernBoy205]

Houston is still the fastest growing metro.
Four Texas Metro Areas Add More Than 400,000 People in the Last Year

[Tassy001]

We do not need a 'study' to know this. Have you spend anytime lately driving the roads in and around Houston?

[DSL_PWR]

yeah houston....

[JimBaker488]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

Houston is still the fastest growing metro.
Four Texas Metro Areas Add More Than 400,000 People in the Last Year

I did not read your link, but my question is this ? Is that a net number ? Much of what all of us see and read about the Houston area is that it's been hemorrhaging jobs since early last year so there has to also be a large number of people/families exiting the area.

[LocalPlanner]

Originally Posted by JimBaker488

I did not read your link, but my question is this ? Is that a net number ? Much of what all of us see and read about the Houston area is that it's been hemorrhaging jobs since early last year so there has to also be a large number of people/families exiting the area.

The Census is always backwards-looking; it doesn't issue current data. The period covered was July 2014 - 2015. Though layoffs were starting to happen during this period, it's unlikely that much outflow of population would have yet happened. I doubt you'll see much outflow at all unless the slump is prolonged (2018 or beyond). Though, I do think population growth will slow down in 2016 and 2017.

[radiolibre99]

It has to slow down. Where are the jobs these people are moving for? There will just be a glut.

[LocalPlanner]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

It has to slow down. Where are the jobs these people are moving for? There will just be a glut.

Remember a fair amount of growth comes from "natural" increase - basically existing residents having kids, and seniors living longer. But one would think that there would be fewer domestic migrants to our region when there's fewer employment opportunities, so that element will slow the increase down.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Of this 156,000, I wonder how many live in Houston and how many live in nearby counties

[hbcu]

610 south never, never, never had traffic even at rush hour....now it does always

[Jack Lance]

An article in todays Chronicle breaks it down a little bit. It says Harris County added a little over 90,000 residents and Fort Bend County added about 30k.


"As a whole, the so-called Texas Triangle of Houston, Austin/San Antonio, and Dallas-Fort Worthadded more people last year than any other state in the country, growing by more than 400,000 residents, or roughly the population of Minneapolis. Harris County alone added nearly 90,500 residents."


"Of the country's 20 fastest-growing counties, eight were in Texas, including Fort Bend County, which added nearly 29,500 people last year and expanded by more than 4 percent. Of the nation's 20 fastest-growing metro areas, Houston is by far the biggest city on the list, with growth of 2.4 percent."


Fall in oil prices does little to slow Houston's population growth - Houston Chronicle