TEXAS – The Office of Management and Budget has announced changes to the Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) around the nation. Several Texas MSAs were impacted due to the new definitions, which included MSA name changes and additions and omissions of counties in some of Texas' MSAs.
Below is a Texas chart depicting the new definitions and how they changed from the last definition.
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AUSTIN – The Austin area population continues to grow.
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MIDLAND, ODESSA, ANDREWS - Rising oil and gas prices have brought big oil, plenty of workers and lots of housing headaches to the nation's fastest-growing boomtowns.
Three Texas cities are among the fastest growing boomtowns in the United States, according to CNN Money. Below is the complete list of the fastest growing boomtowns.
Be sure to catch Wes Perry, Mayor of Midland on Fox Business talking about the boom and Midland's lowest employment rate in the nation.
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HUTTO – Recent estimates of Hutto's population put the city at 20,582 residents, according to the city's development service department.
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HUTTO – Recent estimates of Hutto's population put the city at 20,582 residents, according to the city's development service department.
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ABILENE – Most counties in the Big Country’s populations declined, including the areas covered by the Cline Shale, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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AUSTIN - Almost 90,000 people in Williamson County head south to work in Travis County, according to a new census report using 2006-2010 commuting figures.
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AUSTIN – The city’s total area population is expected to increase from 824,205 in 2012 to about 1.09 million in 2030 and 1.28 million by 2045, according to demographic information from the City of Austin.
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WILLIAMSON COUNTY – Austin continues to lead the region in creating jobs and luring new residents, but Williamson County and other Central Texas suburbs are catching up, becoming more than bedroom communities in Austin’s economic slipstream.
The number of jobs in Williamson County rose by 69 percent from 2000 to 2010, keeping pace with the county’s rapid population growth — also 69 percent — and far outpacing the state’s rate of job creation of about 10 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Public officials in Williamson County have offered incentives that helped lure several large employers, created a health care district near the Texas A&M University medical school and brought large retail developments such as an outlet mall, IKEA and Costco.
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TEXAS – Texas' projected population hit a milestone this month by reaching the 26.39 million mark on January 5, according to a Business Journal’s On Numbers analysis.
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