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 5,300 diverse residents downtown.
Residents
With 692,000 residents in 2004, Austin is the 16th largest city in the U.S. and grew 41% in the 1990s. There are no signs of slowing down either. The area is projected to more than double in population in the next twenty years. 296,000 people live within 5 miles of the heart of Downtown Austin, 6th Street and Congress Avenue. And about 5,300 residents call Downtown Austin home.
- Household, Income, and Age Information for Trade Area Zip Codes
- Residents within 1, 3, and 5 miles from 6th and Congress
- Downtown Census Tract Information from 2000 Census
Employees
There are 60,000 employees in the core of Downtown and almost 90,000 within a 1-mile ring of 6th Street and Congress Avenue. For site-specific information, contact .