Which Texas city will be next in population boom?

I think:
Bryan/College Station
Round Rock
The Woodlands

What do you think?

Frisco or McKinney.

I know Laredo is growing really fast. So they may have a chance of being the next large city in Texas.

^^^ I wouldn't put anything past Laredo either. You can also consider Brownsville as well.

I tend to be a little skeptical about the overall growth of large suburban municipalities like Plano, Irving, Pasadena, etc, etc. because there is competition for suburban superiority among their kin, and there annexation powers are limited by the moves of their brethren. So, to that end, I'm more likely to say that a smaller, less metropolis region, such as along the Rio Grande, is more likely to swell to immense proportions over time (say, 50 or so years).

If you asked me what large suburban municipalities are likely to see the largest growth over the next twenty or so years, I'd say (in no particular order):

Frisco, Pearland, Sugarland, McKinney, Allen, League City, Katy, Round Rock and Georgetown. Maybe a Rowlett or Rockwall as well.

Keep your eyes on any of the border cities. All of them are growing very rapidly.

McKinney actually has a much larger buildout estimate than Frisco and is growing faster actually passing it last year. It will probably lead that list. It also has the advantage of being a county seat. I would also put Waxahachie and Cleburne on that list.

Round Rock
The Woodlands
Killeen-Temple
Laredo

McKinney by itself is lined-up to approach 400K in the late '20s. But, I'm also seriously curious about Denton with its 175 sq. mi. of land it will be acquiring in it's ETJ annex plan - however, it's not in full-on boomburg (not 'burb') mode yet from the extension/overflow of corporate D and FW. But, it has a potential (POTENTIAL only) of having over a half-million in 30 years. Both are notable as being county seats.

However, both will probably never be important on the national scene - as it looks right now.

Scratch that on Denton, it has 275 (not 175) sq. mi. in it's ETJ/planning area. Assuming it sticks to it's approved 25-year annexation plan and acquires all that land allowable as of just today, you do the math... It's got potential.

Does anyone have current Corpus Christi population numbers?

^ About 279,000.

Galveston, Amarillo, Laredo, Midland/Odessa, El Paso, Corpus Christi.

Thanks CTroyMathis. I've always wondered why Corpus wasn't larger.

^^Anyone who keeps up with Galveston knows its experiencing a boom. The local newspaper reported the island is going to gain 3,852 new homes in the next couple of years, not counting some of smaller custom home projects.

I think it would definitely be interesting to see a bigger or more notable City of Corpus Christi. Maybe in time there will be a spark that ignites a good long steady boom for the place.

I hear you on that one. It is really the only true beach city in Texas, along with South Padre, and it screams potential.

Definately Arlington and Plano.

Laredo is nasty

Texarkana!

(I obviously know nothing about Texas)

I would say the Woodlands. It is currently in a plan to completely develope its downtown and it isn't event an incorporated city. The Woodlands town center already contains a skycraper and a couple of mid-rises, a covention center and 12 story attached hotel, a concert venue that is always busy, and now a water Taxi that connets all points of interest in the Town Center to the Lake which allows residents to go shopping without dring into the center.

I don't live there, but I work for the one of the engineering companies the Woodlands consults with on a regular bases. The development company that operates the Woodlands also is in progress of developing their last 3500 acres. They are looking for more areas to expand, but really are focusing inward to developing a robut downtown area.

Outside of the Woodlands itself, other major residential developments, the growth of Conroe, and Northern Harris County are supplementing the growth of the Town Center.

I think, given a couple of years, the Woodlands Town Center area will become another commercial and office center in the Houston Metropolitan Area more than just a suburb. Sugarland and the Weschase are achieving this also.

Texarkana!

(I obviously know nothing about Texas)
You may have said that as a joke but, the city is growing faster than it has in the last 50 years. However, it'll be quite a while before we become a large city. Right now, we've graduated from being a large town to a small city. As I've said before, I think Laredo has a very good chance of developing into Texas' next large city. If I'm not mistaken the city has grown to well over 200,000 already and they're still one of the fastest growing cities in America.

wouldn't be all that surprising if a border town did. Laredo's location could very well be the key to that. County seats in major metros have a great advantage as well. That's why I say places like Waxahachie or McKinney have tons of potential if they develop right.

Probobly Laredo....even though it's a shithole

How big is Beaumont, anyway?

Laredo, Lubbock, and Corpus Christi are really going places fast. But the next HUGE Texas City is going to be Austin, IMO. I think it might be passing San Antonio within the next 10 years. Of course, there's always that impending connection between Houston and Beaumont, so I think we'll see a bunch of growth there too.

I believe that Montgomery County (Conroe, The Woodlands) is the fastest growing county in the U.S. right now. Williamson County (Round Rock, Georgetown) has really taken off, with some big help from Dell. Either one of those places is a safe bet. You'll see some small growth in the Midland/Odessa area, but we're not goiing to be the next up-and-coming place. Lubbock has some pretty cool plans for future growth, as well.

Beaumont is not large at all maybe less than 150 thousand live here. i go to school here so its not the best place in texas you would want to visit.

All of the suburban areas around Austin, particularly Williamson directly to the north, and Hays directly to the south are growing tremendously. Both are on the Interstate 35 corridor, as well as the new TX 130 tollway running parallel to I-35. I personally think San Marcos in Hays county will really blow up over the next decade or two. It's only 30 miles south of downtown Austin, and about 50 north of downtown San Antonio. It's already around 50,000, and will become a more popular choice for people looking for new homes from both Austin and San Antonio over the next few years. Also, besides being the county seat of Hays county, it also is home of Texas State University which has 20 or 30 thousand students, and is expected to become an elite public university like UT or A&M.

Beaumont is not large at all maybe less than 150 thousand live here. i go to school here so its not the best place in texas you would want to visit.
Beaumont is an absolute dump! I lived there briefly in 1998 and the whole city looked like an endless ghetto. I only saw a handful of nice neighborhoods. Don't get me started on downtown! Their tallest building looks like an abandoned factory tower and to top it off the people aren't all that nice either. They better get their sh!t together or they'll be looking at a mass exodus from their city.

Wouldn't some of these that you guys are mentioning be like "Next large Texas suburb"?

Many, but, not all. Laredo isn't. Some others aren't. Denton really isn't actually, unlike the unflattering burb opinion we could derive for McKinney which can build out to 400,000.

Denton will very likely bloat to anywhere between 450K to 825K (but, not built out by far) over the next 4 -5 decades - depending intensively on the powers-that-be following the current local ETJ annexation plan for the next 25 years, a plan required by state law - and the fact that Fort Worth and Co.'s next few decades of northerly expansion will also aid in Denton becoming a powerful piece of Upstate Texas. I've reviewed the plans a few times and it's astonishing - even moreso if the next 5 mayors stick to the plan formation and the follow-on 10-15 mayors ride along the wave. And, northerly Upstate Texas growth trends will more than likely continue to prevail over the modest hard numbers and not percentages that flow southward. Thus aiding Denton, but, not necessarily making it become irrelevant due to mass-exurban land use. It may not become close to perfect, but, it won't be a burb for another city. It will more than likely be a hub that unfortunately extends the boundaries of metropolitania to the Oklahoma border - but, no further in any of our lifetimes. (Also, the reason I harp on or acknowledge Denton so much is that it's a long, long term 'next' 'large' city - not an immediate 'hello, I'm big now, look at my bleach-white wide streets' type of place that we'll see in the 2010 almanac wondering where the heck this place is at. Although it's county, that Denton is a seat of, is generally considered a commuter county into the core two counties of Dallas and Fort Worth's Tarrant - Denton itself isn't as much. It actually receives reverse commutes and cross-metro commutes, and will probably have that trend expound upon itself decade after decade - and the universities in it's muni boundaries will slowly be less of a reason for these reverse and cross commutes.)

Edited: Started to edit in the following post here. Changed it and is now a separate post. Really shows an interesting possibility for Laredo.

TEXAS CITY NAME C2000 P2010 P2020 P2030 P2040 P2050 P2060
Largest Cities
HOUSTON 1953.6M 2240.9M 2520.9M 2798.2M 3073.2M 3349.5M 3626.5M
SAN ANTONIO 1144.6M 1354.3M 1552.5M 1729.2M 1872.9M 2002.0M 2116.7M
DALLAS 1188.5M 1312.3M 1451.8M 1525.4M 1598.2M 1764.6M 2058.7M
FORT WORTH 534,694 632,940 786,306 953,237 1168.9M 1477.2M 1848.7M
AUSTIN 656,562 791,015 977,749 1155.0M 1314.8M 1480.5M 1634.5M
EL PASO 563,662 631,837 709,228 777,152 835,734 894,316 952,898
LAREDO 176,576 234,423 302,377 378,468 462,176 553,670 650,317

Rio Grande Valley
BROWNSVILLE 139,722 173,986 210,210 247,653 284,979 322,316 357,828
EDINBURG 48,465 64,792 83,869 105,237 128,358 153,611 179,517
HARLINGEN 57,564 66,805 76,575 86,674 96,741 106,811 116,389
MCALLEN 106,414 127,458 152,045 179,586 209,386 241,933 275,322
MISSION 45,408 61,154 79,551 100,157 122,454 146,807 171,790
PHARR 46,660 59,571 74,656 91,553 109,836 129,805 150,291
SAN JUAN 26,229 39,074 54,082 70,892 89,081 108,947 129,327

Other Cities
ABILENE 115,926 124,607 130,220 132,820 133,514 130,943 126,835
AMARILLO 173,627 188,004 203,497 217,987 234,486 252,493 267,324
BEAUMONT 113,866 113,866 113,866 113,866 113,866 113,866 113,866
BRYAN 65,660 74,650 84,038 92,672 99,339 107,239 109,881
CEDAR PARK 26,049 53,622 74,853 104,608 130,570 156,597 190,759
COLLEGE STATION 67,890 80,920 94,526 107,040 116,703 128,152 131,981
CONROE 36,811 49,602 57,413 72,685 90,440 113,860 141,060
CORPUS CHRISTI 277,450 316,058 356,123 391,077 421,761 448,879 470,523
GEORGETOWN 28,339 40,888 55,770 73,463 92,702 113,633 136,082
KILLEEN 86,911 104,528 117,239 130,315 142,772 156,151 169,937
LONGVIEW 73,344 76,827 80,433 84,160 88,473 94,312 102,661
LUBBOCK 199,564 210,658 218,471 222,680 223,370 226,395 224,074
MIDLAND 94,996 100,137 105,639 109,561 112,478 114,324 116,064
MISSOURI CITY 52,913 83,645 104,844 125,194 145,816 160,523 193,025
NEW BRAUNFELS 36,494 46,909 60,186 75,239 90,002 105,392 121,944
ODESSA 90,943 95,490 100,264 105,277 110,540 116,067 121,870
PASADENA 141,674 161,678 181,156 200,314 219,278 238,124 256,898
PEARLAND 37,640 66,049 83,462 99,342 114,034 129,553 145,720
ROUND ROCK 61,136 88,993 122,140 161,290 203,443 249,285 298,426
SAN ANGELO 88,439 94,261 99,070 102,120 103,808 105,145 105,445
SAN MARCOS 34,733 48,814 69,906 90,990 114,477 139,466 158,099
TEMPLE 54,514 62,382 71,350 80,830 89,247 97,774 105,519
TYLER 83,650 89,571 93,997 98,409 102,809 110,207 119,994
WACO 113,726 121,355 129,046 135,528 142,247 146,514 152,715
WICHITA FALLS 104,197 109,663 114,576 117,825 119,525 120,710 121,668

Other DFW Cities P2000 P2010 P2020 P2030 P2040 P2050 P2060
ALLEN 43,554 88,000 101,647 119,646 125,617 128,145 129,215
ARLINGTON 332,969 390,000 453,656 485,000 500,000 510,000 515,000
CARROLLTON 109,576 121,000 124,000 128,500 131,320 133,450 134,800
CELINA 1,861 5,000 22,675 48,000 85,000 130,000 150,000
DENTON 80,537 145,000 199,000 250,000 295,000 363,586 498,488
FLOWER MOUND 50,702 64,000 85,000 100,000 115,000 124,000 130,089
FRISCO 33,714 137,115 200,000 244,000 269,000 290,000 300,000
GARLAND 215,768 235,020 255,000 272,000 287,000 300,000 300,000
GRAND PRAIRIE 127,427 175,987 212,932 250,345 294,137 343,148 393,743
IRVING 191,615 219,238 240,099 255,853 267,751 276,736 283,521
LANCASTER 25,894 50,000 80,000 100,000 120,000 136,000 146,000
LEWISVILLE 77,737 105,690 132,412 152,002 165,316 175,002 185,002
MANSFIELD 28,031 51,086 71,622 92,365 113,337 126,634 128,333
MCKINNEY 54,369 93,492 147,235 215,118 292,231 348,508 400,000
MESQUITE 124,523 160,002 195,003 225,004 242,006 249,008 250,610
PLANO 222,030 253,608 264,932 275,000 285,000 295,000 305,000
RICHARDSON 91,776 102,880 116,000 116,000 116,000 116,000 116,000
WYLIE 15,132 35,000 50,000 62,413 86,956 91,543 100,000

http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/data/popwaterdemand/2003Projections/Population%20Projections/STATE_REGION/City_Pop.htm

Keep your eyes on any of the border cities. All of them are growing very rapidly.

mercedies/laredo area is coming up. but i could see round rock having more of a boom before them.

I give my vote to McAllen. As for Houston metro area cities; League City has reached 67,000 people and still has huge tracts of land left to be developed. I would rank Pearland high on the list too. However, The Woodlands takes the prize as far as urban development.

Beaumont is an absolute dump! I lived there briefly in 1998 and the whole city looked like an endless ghetto. I only saw a handful of nice neighborhoods. Don't get me started on downtown! Their tallest building looks like an abandoned factory tower and to top it off the people aren't all that nice either. They better get their sh!t together or they'll be looking at a mass exodus from their city.



Beaumont is not a dump ha! Yes parts of it are I will give you that but not the west end. First of all did you even go to the west end of the city where all the new development is going on? Seccond of all Beaumont looks alot diff than it did in 1998. There are dozens of million dollar neighborhoods being built of Dowlen road and countless new upscale shoping centers being built. Beaumont was the site of the first HEB plus which is the largest HEB in Texas, then they later added it in Houston. We have also drasticly improved downtown. We have revitalized many streets and created an new entertainment district called Crocket Street and there have been many loft built downtown. It still has alot of work, but its def made alot of improvement. Also there are rude people everywhere man. If there ever was a "mass exodus" it would be because of the school system not the city.

This is why projections are fun to look at but are terrible for accuracy. Looking at that chart that Ctroy posted just four years ago and you can see that many of those numbers are a bit off. For instance, Killeen's population is currently at 116,000 people. In that chart, it wasn't suppose to hit that number until around 2019 or sometime.

Wow! That's cool. I'll have to check out Beaumont again one day.

All of the suburban areas around Austin, particularly Williamson directly to the north, and Hays directly to the south are growing tremendously. Both are on the Interstate 35 corridor, as well as the new TX 130 tollway running parallel to I-35. I personally think San Marcos in Hays county will really blow up over the next decade or two. It's only 30 miles south of downtown Austin, and about 50 north of downtown San Antonio. It's already around 50,000, and will become a more popular choice for people looking for new homes from both Austin and San Antonio over the next few years. Also, besides being the county seat of Hays county, it also is home of Texas State University which has 20 or 30 thousand students, and is expected to become an elite public university like UT or A&M.
The outlet malls are also the most visited "landmark" in the entire state. There has been a lot of growth in San Marcos in the 4 years that I have lived here but most of the explosive sort has been in Kyle, Buda, and New Braunfels. I would also like to mention Victoria, whose prospects are looking good with a proposed nuclear power plant south of the city.

Holy crap, I posted that the day after I joined SSC. I vaguely remember posting that message.

:lol: Didnt realize it was that old!

Waco? :D

im going to go with austin.... its has the potential grow very very fast over the next 10-15 years

It will be Corpus or Brownsville, for sure. You'd be surprised at how fast Corpus is growing, and the population statistics corroborate that. If it keeps it up it can be near 500,000 soon. Brownsville, too, although make that 300,000-ish, and a huge region to go with it.

Weird how it just randomly picked Celina in the DFW area to go from 2,000 to explode to 150,000 in the future. lol

Here is for the Houston area cities:

ALVIN 21,413 - 23,231 - 25,123 - 26,935 - 28,605 - 30,375 - 32,223
BAYTOWN 66,430 - 68,772 - 71,106 - 73,380 - 75,581 - 77,775 - 79,971
BELLAIRE 15,642 - 17,272 - 18,859 - 20,420 - 21,965 - 23,500 - 25,029
CONROE 36,811 - 49,602 - 57,413 - 72,685 - 90,440 - 113,860 - 141,060
DEER PARK 28,520 - 29,513 - 30,480 - 31,432 - 32,374 - 33,309 - 34,241
DICKINSON 17,093 - 19,955 - 22,425 - 23,888 - 24,480 - 24,921 - 25,208
FRIENDSWOOD 29,037 - 32,353 - 35,215 - 36,910 - 37,596 - 38,107 - 38,439
GALENA PARK 10,592 - 11,099 - 11,592 - 12,077 - 12,557 - 13,034 - 13,510
GALVESTON 57,247 - 57,247 - 57,247 - 57,247 - 57,247 - 57,247 - 57,247
HUMBLE 14,579 - 16,862 - 19,085 - 21,272 - 23,436 - 25,587 - 27,730
HUNTSVILLE 35,078 - 40,141 - 44,255 - 46,236 - 45,750 - 45,858 - 45,858
JACINTO CITY 10,302 - 11,171 - 12,017 - 12,849 - 13,673 - 14,492 - 15,308
JERSEY VILLAGE 6,880 - 8,742 - 10,555 - 12,338 - 14,103 - 15,857 - 17,604
KATY 11,775 - 15,254 - 18,654 - 22,045 - 25,411 - 28,834 - 32,291
KINGSVILLE 25,575 - 26,844 - 27,756 - 28,347 - 28,727 - 29,226 - 29,248
LA MARQUE 13,682 - 13,682 - 13,682 - 13,682 - 13,682 - 13,682 - 13,682
LA PORTE 31,880 - 35,467 - 38,960 - 42,394 - 45,794 - 49,173 - 52,539
LEAGUE CITY 45,444 - 53,546 - 60,539 - 64,683 - 66,362 - 67,613 - 68,428
MISSOURI CITY 52,913 - 83,645 - 104,844 - 125,194 - 145,816 - 160,523 - 193,025
PASADENA 141,674 - 161,678 - 181,156 - 200,314 - 219,278 - 238,124 - 256,898
PEARLAND 37,640 - 66,049 - 83,462 - 99,342 - 114,034 - 129,553 - 145,720
ROSENBERG 24,043 - 28,100 - 32,305 - 37,446 - 42,732 - 49,665 - 57,587
SEABROOK 9,443 - 11,943 - 14,377 - 16,771 - 19,141 - 21,496 - 23,842
SOUTH HOUSTON 15,833 - 17,307 - 18,742 - 20,153 - 21,550 - 22,938 - 24,321
STAFFORD 15,681 - 23,339 - 31,275 - 40,978 - 50,955 - 64,039 - 78,989
SUGAR LAND 63,328 - 72,500 - 72,500 - 72,500 - 72,500 - 72,500 - 72,500
TEXAS CITY 41,521 - 41,891 - 42,211 - 42,400 - 42,477 - 42,534 - 42,571
TOMBALL 9,089 - 12,059 - 15,429 - 18,150 - 22,954 - 26,554 - 31,650
WEBSTER 9,083 - 13,076 - 16,964 - 20,788 - 24,573 - 28,334 - 32,081
WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE 14,211 - 15,381 - 16,520 - 17,641 - 18,750 - 19,852 - 20,950


These numbers I think are off. Katy and Kingsville, at the least, are way higher than that. And I wish they would track and project growth of all of the unincorporated areas just outside of Houston, which is almost all of suburban North Houston..

im going to go with austin.... its has the potential grow very very fast over the next 10-15 years

What's the definition of "large city"? I'm only asking because I thought it was a given that Austin was already considered one of Texas' large cities. Obviously "large" is relative, and there are three cities which are larger in this state, but Austin would be the largest city in quite a few states. I'm just a little confused because although I would consider Austin a "mid-sized city" at about 800,000 in the city limits, and 1.7 million in the metro, I would still call it large. Not a "big-city", but large nonetheless. I guess it's all semantics.:blahblah:

If growth in the SA-Austin corridor continues as it has, would you consider it a single metro?

I don't believe the two will ever have the commuting percentages to become a single MSA, or even a CSA.

It's more likely that the Austin-Round Rock MSA and the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood MSA which abuts the Austin metro to the north would become a CSA. They're closer to one another, and Austin's fastest growing areas have been to the north.

What's the reason for any of these cities to explode? The Rio Grande isn't navigable, so there's very little reason for the border cities to jump past their current rates of expansion, save for a resource boom. Likewise, Corpus isn't close enough to anything that would spark its growth that Houston wouldn't already take care of.

Houston blew up because of oil and the Port. DFW expanded because of its status as a rail hub connecting the Southeast, West and Midwest in the 19th Century, and the airport in the 20th Century. San Antonio had the military, and Austin had a well-educated population drawn to its natural environment, leading to a distinct advantage in the tech boom. El Paso has its strategic location.

What other city in Texas, barring an unknown development (like in the case of ATX), has these sorts of advantages?

What's the reason for any of these cities to explode? The Rio Grande isn't navigable, so there's very little reason for the border cities to jump past their current rates of expansion, save for a resource boom. Likewise, Corpus isn't close enough to anything that would spark its growth that Houston wouldn't already take care of.

Houston blew up because of oil and the Port. DFW expanded because of its status as a rail hub connecting the Southeast, West and Midwest in the 19th Century, and the airport in the 20th Century. San Antonio had the military, and Austin had a well-educated population drawn to its natural environment, leading to a distinct advantage in the tech boom. El Paso has its strategic location.

What other city in Texas, barring an unknown development (like in the case of ATX), has these sorts of advantages?
Laredo is the largest freight crossing point on the US-Mexico bordergiving it an advantage.
What is the mysterious "unknown development" that aids Austins growth?

The illuminati decided Austin is in a strategic location from an intergalactic standpoint.

The illuminati decided Austin is in a strategic location from an intergalactic standpoint.
I thought Steve Jackson lived in Dallas.
Oops nevermind upon investigation its Austin falling into line with your hypothesis.

Laredo is the largest freight crossing point on the US-Mexico bordergiving it an advantage.
What is the mysterious "unknown development" that aids Austins growth?

The question I have on that point is that this has been the case for a long time - but Laredo hasn't simply exploded in growth. Cities don't grow because things pass through, they grow because things meet up. It wasn't oil, the ship channel, or the rail junctions alone that made Houston grow; it was the confluence of all these things. Same with Dallas - the existence of the rail hub connecting Midwestern grain, Southern cotton and Western minerals combined with the market know-how from Fort Worth's stock yards led to massive investment and expansion. San Antonio had its wide array of military bases and Austin its creative-class mecca.

If you asked me what large suburban municipalities are likely to see the largest growth over the next twenty or so years, I'd say (in no particular order):

Frisco, Pearland, Sugarland, McKinney, Allen, League City, Katy, Round Rock and Georgetown. Maybe a Rowlett or Rockwall as well.

I'd add Hutto and Kyle to the list.

What's the definition of "large city"? I'm only asking because I thought it was a given that Austin was already considered one of Texas' large cities. Obviously "large" is relative, and there are three cities which are larger in this state, but Austin would be the largest city in quite a few states. I'm just a little confused because although I would consider Austin a "mid-sized city" at about 800,000 in the city limits, and 1.7 million in the metro, I would still call it large. Not a "big-city", but large nonetheless. I guess it's all semantics.:blahblah:

im going only by comparison to other cities in texas... it is a large city for most states, but in texas, its a nice mid-size city... it has the potential to explode

What if Arlington starts to "fill in" ?

What if Arlington starts to "fill in" ?
Arlington pretty much already has "filled in." There are too many more places for it to build so I doubt we'll see it ever reach the 500k mark.

My bet would be on San Marcos or Denton. San Marcos is right in the middle of Austin and San Antonio's metro and Denton has so much land to annex by 2060, it'll probably reach 500k.

McAllen.

It will be Corpus or Brownsville, for sure. You'd be surprised at how fast Corpus is growing, and the population statistics corroborate that. If it keeps it up it can be near 500,000 soon. Brownsville, too, although make that 300,000-ish, and a huge region to go with it.

Weird how it just randomly picked Celina in the DFW area to go from 2,000 to explode to 150,000 in the future. lol

Here is for the Houston area cities:

ALVIN 21,413 - 23,231 - 25,123 - 26,935 - 28,605 - 30,375 - 32,223
BAYTOWN 66,430 - 68,772 - 71,106 - 73,380 - 75,581 - 77,775 - 79,971
BELLAIRE 15,642 - 17,272 - 18,859 - 20,420 - 21,965 - 23,500 - 25,029
CONROE 36,811 - 49,602 - 57,413 - 72,685 - 90,440 - 113,860 - 141,060
DEER PARK 28,520 - 29,513 - 30,480 - 31,432 - 32,374 - 33,309 - 34,241
DICKINSON 17,093 - 19,955 - 22,425 - 23,888 - 24,480 - 24,921 - 25,208
FRIENDSWOOD 29,037 - 32,353 - 35,215 - 36,910 - 37,596 - 38,107 - 38,439
GALENA PARK 10,592 - 11,099 - 11,592 - 12,077 - 12,557 - 13,034 - 13,510
GALVESTON 57,247 - 57,247 - 57,247 - 57,247 - 57,247 - 57,247 - 57,247
HUMBLE 14,579 - 16,862 - 19,085 - 21,272 - 23,436 - 25,587 - 27,730
HUNTSVILLE 35,078 - 40,141 - 44,255 - 46,236 - 45,750 - 45,858 - 45,858
JACINTO CITY 10,302 - 11,171 - 12,017 - 12,849 - 13,673 - 14,492 - 15,308
JERSEY VILLAGE 6,880 - 8,742 - 10,555 - 12,338 - 14,103 - 15,857 - 17,604
KATY 11,775 - 15,254 - 18,654 - 22,045 - 25,411 - 28,834 - 32,291
KINGSVILLE 25,575 - 26,844 - 27,756 - 28,347 - 28,727 - 29,226 - 29,248
LA MARQUE 13,682 - 13,682 - 13,682 - 13,682 - 13,682 - 13,682 - 13,682
LA PORTE 31,880 - 35,467 - 38,960 - 42,394 - 45,794 - 49,173 - 52,539
LEAGUE CITY 45,444 - 53,546 - 60,539 - 64,683 - 66,362 - 67,613 - 68,428
MISSOURI CITY 52,913 - 83,645 - 104,844 - 125,194 - 145,816 - 160,523 - 193,025
PASADENA 141,674 - 161,678 - 181,156 - 200,314 - 219,278 - 238,124 - 256,898
PEARLAND 37,640 - 66,049 - 83,462 - 99,342 - 114,034 - 129,553 - 145,720
ROSENBERG 24,043 - 28,100 - 32,305 - 37,446 - 42,732 - 49,665 - 57,587
SEABROOK 9,443 - 11,943 - 14,377 - 16,771 - 19,141 - 21,496 - 23,842
SOUTH HOUSTON 15,833 - 17,307 - 18,742 - 20,153 - 21,550 - 22,938 - 24,321
STAFFORD 15,681 - 23,339 - 31,275 - 40,978 - 50,955 - 64,039 - 78,989
SUGAR LAND 63,328 - 72,500 - 72,500 - 72,500 - 72,500 - 72,500 - 72,500
TEXAS CITY 41,521 - 41,891 - 42,211 - 42,400 - 42,477 - 42,534 - 42,571
TOMBALL 9,089 - 12,059 - 15,429 - 18,150 - 22,954 - 26,554 - 31,650
WEBSTER 9,083 - 13,076 - 16,964 - 20,788 - 24,573 - 28,334 - 32,081
WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE 14,211 - 15,381 - 16,520 - 17,641 - 18,750 - 19,852 - 20,950


These numbers I think are off. Katy and Kingsville, at the least, are way higher than that. And I wish they would track and project growth of all of the unincorporated areas just outside of Houston, which is almost all of suburban North Houston..

I though Pearland would be bigger, at least bigger than Missouri City. I mean it has almost 9-10 sq.miles more in area. And why does Sugarland's population stall?

It's nice that Pasadena looks like it'll still be the second-largest city in the Houston Area. People usually say in the future, itll be surpassed but that wont happen unless another city booms. And so far all they've had was large growth.

Amarillo is getting big, its the 2nd largest in the other cities category on that list.

i still think its a little off, as we got like 100,000 people in the last 20 years, and with the university and downtown revitalisation plan and all i have high expectations for Amarillo.