Austin
University of Texas
Top Ten Demographic Trends in Austin
Statistics of Austin
Fun Facts
100
This is the population of Austin (closest guess wins)
What is 656,562
100
This is the percentage of UT students who are female.
What is 50.4%?
100
True or False: No ethnic or demographic group exists as a majority of the city’s population.
True
100
What is the highest percentage of the highest education level attained (population age 25+) in Austin in 2010?
Completed Bachelors Degree
100
This is the number of Austin residents who are 85 years old and older.
What is 5,823?
200
This is the percent of Austin residents who are male. (Closest guess wins)
What is 51.41%?
200
This is the percent of UT students who are foreign students.
What is 9.1%?
200
True or False: African American share is on the wane.
True: The city’s African American share of total population will more than likely continue its shallow slide even as the absolute number of African Americans in the city continues to increase.
200
How much is the 2010 median Household Income?
$50,132
200
This is the percent of Austin residents who are institutionalized.
What is 1.04%?
300
This is the percent of Austin residents who are college age (18-22)
What is 10%?
300
This is the percent of UT students who are caucasian.
What is 50.1%?
300
True or False: A decreasingly sharp edge of affluence
False: Maps of Median Family Income from Census 2000 show an increasingly hard edge between affluent central Texas and less-than-affluent parts of the urban region. While some forms of residential segregation have decreased markedly over the past few decades in Austin, the degree of socio-economic spatial separation has steeply increased. The center of wealth in Austin has slowly migrated into the hills west of the city.
300
What is the unemployed rate in 2010 for Potential Employees (Age 16+)?
5.17%
300
This is the percent of Austin housing that is rented (as opposed to owner-occupied).
What is 55.17%?
400
This is the Median age of Austin residents.
What is 29.6?
400
This is the percent of UT students who are grad students.
What is 22.5%?
400
True or False: Decreasing families-with-children share in the urban core.
True: The share of all households within the city’s urban core made-up of families-with-children is slowly declining. In 1970, the urban core’s families-with-children share was just above 32%, Census 2000 puts the figure at not quite 14%. Moreover, with only a few neighborhood exceptions, the urban core is also becoming almost devoid of married-with-children households.
400
What is the Poverty Rate in 2010?
18.4%
400
What is the mean travel time to work (minutes)? (workers age 16+, 2006-2010)
22.7
500
This is the percent of Austin residents who are African American.
What is 10.05%?
500
This percent of UT students are from out-of-state.
What is 11%?
500
True or False: decreasing regional indigent health care burden.
False: During the foreseeable future, the regional indigent health care burden will continue to grow and the city’s disproportionate shouldering of the cost will increase as well.
500
What is the percentage of persons below poverty level, 2006-2010?
18.4%
500
Which city is at/near top of fastest growing cities for 4 decades?
Austin
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