Demographics

Theresa Carroll said she noticed a lack of older people in the city when she moved here from the Midwest. She asked the ATXplained project about the average age of the population and wondered if Austin was "hiding the elderly."

The makeup of Texas voters is much more diverse today than during the 2016 elections. And some of that growth is the result of a nearly two percentage point increase in the number of eligible immigrant voters.

After English, the second most widely spoken language in Austin is, unsurprisingly, Spanish. The City of Austin says “other Indo-European languages” are the next most common. But what exactly does that mean?

The breadth of what it means to be a Black American is widening, according to new analysis of the latest migration statistics.

When the City Council maps were first drawn in 2013, roughly 13% of District 6's population identified as Asian. If the latest maps are approved, that portion would more than double to 28%.

The white population is still the largest racial group in the U.S. Whether it is declining depends on how you define "white." Narrow definitions, researchers warn, can be misleading and dangerous.

Texas grew more than any other state in the last decade. Tasked with adding two congressional districts, some political watchers say redistricting could be a "blood bath" between the state parties.

Tras una década de crecimiento explosivo en la región, una demógrafa de Austin dijo que probablemente faltaron personas en el conteo a causa de la polémica política que rodeó al censo.

Austin's demographer says the increase is likely an undercount – one that comes after a politically fraught survey and a decade of explosive growth in the area.

For months, COVID-19 and interference by Trump officials delayed the release of new census demographic data used to redraw voting districts, forcing some state and local elections to be pushed back.