CAMPO’s 25-year transportation plan, which calls for pretty much every road in the Austin area to get bigger and longer, is based on projections that predict the Austin metro population will double, and the Williamson County population quadruple, by 2025. In the list below, metro sub-areas are ranked by amount of forecasted growth, configured as follows:

Area: 1997 population/ 2025 projected population

1: 98,000/416,000

2: 38,000/191,000

3: 62,000/206,000

4: 300,000/427,000

5: 175,000/281,000

6: 118,000/187,000

7: 38,000/101,000

8: 47,000/97,000

9: 8,000/58,000

10: 45,000/80,000

11: 22,000/51,000

12: 8,000/35,000

13: 12,000/37,000

14: 17,000/41,000

15: 19,000/43,000

16: 8,000/22,000

Population Total: 1,015,000/2,273,000

Source: Hicks & Co., in cooperation with Prime Strategies and the city of Austin PECS Dept., May 1999

This article appears in June 16 • 2000.

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