Downtown Austin’s population popped 79 percent from 2010 to 2020, report says

The population of downtown Austin has surged from 4,222 in 1990 and 7,635 in 2010 to 13,648 in 2020, according to the report, released by the Downtown Austin Alliance. That translates into a 223 percent population spike between 1990 and 2020 and a 79 percent jump from 2010 to 2020.

Today, the population of downtown Austin roughly equates to the population of Manor, a Travis County suburb.

To accommodate the escalating population of downtown Austin, real estate developers have bulked up the housing supply there.

In 1990, just 948 housing units were located downtown, according to the report. That number grew to 5,670 in 2010 and 9,447 in 2020. In other words, the downtown housing supply spiked a whopping 897 percent between 1990 and 2020 and a far more modest 67 percent from 2010 to 2020.

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