Title: Population growth in U.S. cities: Austin is blowing away the competition.
Headings: Austin, Texas, Is Blowing Away Every Other Big City in Population Growth
Austin, Texas, Is Blowing Away Every Other Big City in Population Growth
A lone star.
Americans still love the sun
America’s fastest growing city is really a fast growing suburb
Only a few big cities are outpacing their wider regions

Content: But the Sun Belt’s lure of cheap housing and warm weather isn’t losing its appeal to Americans. That said, Pacific boomtowns like Seattle and San Francisco are benefiting more from hot job markets, which have outweighed their miserably expensive real estate prices. America’s fastest growing city is really a fast growing suburb
Austin is a delightful town with a growing number of high-rises and walkable neighborhoods packed with trendy restaurants and bars. But it’s nearly impossible to survive there without a car, an enormous amount of the housing stock is made up of single-family homes, and it’s not actually all that noticeable when you leave its city limits. Like many of the places topping the growth charts, much of it just feels like a large collection of ‘burbs. Today on FiveThirtyEight, Trulia economist Jed Kolko points out that based on neighborhood density, Austin could be considered more than half suburban, as would other high-growth locales like Phoenix; Fort Worth, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Houston. So while cities are growing as political units (which is wonderful for their tax bases), that doesn’t necessarily mean Americans living in them are opting for what most of us would consider urban lifestyles.