Where & Why to Live Downtown
Demographics
Downtown is home to a diverse residential population. It is also home to 90,000 employees during the daytime and well over 100,000 evening entertainment patrons on the weekends. Today there are approximately 9,000 diverse residents downtown.
Residents
With 812,000 residents in 2011, Austin is the 14th largest city in the U.S. and has grown 24% since the year 2000. There are no signs of slowing down either. The area is projected to more than double in population in the next twenty years. 300,000 people live within 5 miles of the heart of downtown Austin, 6th Street and Congress Avenue. And about 9,000 residents call downtown Austin home.
Employees
There are 67,000 employees in the core of downtown and almost 90,000 within a 1-mile ring of 6th Street and Congress Avenue.