Austin on brink of becoming nation's 10th largest city

[Neil Narayan]

It appears Austin soon will join Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas in an elite club — the 10 largest cities in the U.S.

As it stands now, Austin ranks as the 11th largest city in the country, right behind San Jose, California. But a new projection from the City of Austin indicates that sometime next year, Austin will leapfrog San Jose to claim the No. 10 spot. Unless it sees an unlikely surge in population, San Jose would fall to No. 11.

Houston ranks as the country’s fourth-largest city, with San Antonio at No. 7 and Dallas at No. 9. When Austin climbs into the top 10, Texas will boast four of the country’s 10 largest cities.

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/06-16-20-austin-expected-to-break-into-ranks-of-10-largest-us-cities-in-2021/

[Bryan Hancock]

This is true, but Austin's MSA is still quite small compared to many other areas of the country.  Austin currently is the 29th largest MSA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statistical_areas

Even at a close to 30% per decade growth rate Austin still has a long way to go to catch up with other areas of the country.  Our idiotic city council will undoubtedly continue to retard growth, fail to plan for the inevitable, and blow resources on identity politics matters instead of what they truly should be investing time, money, and energy working on.  Our land development code is still one of the dumbest and least efficient in the country and many builders give up after a number of years of brain damage in favor of doing projects on the neighboring cities.