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What is the current population of the Houston metro area? 

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Houston is suitable for this type of analysis due to its 1.95 million population, large geographic area and fast growth rate.
He praises Minneapolis as a role model- overlooking the small fact that Minneapolis has lost a fourth of its 1950 population, while Houston keeps growing.
Findings show that Houston has currently developed much more urban area within high-risk flood-prone zones compared to Amsterdam.
A simple, static general equilibrium model demonstrates that moderate differences in metro areas' consumption amenities can cause extremely large differences in their population density.
The results indicate a negative relationship between the central-city share of metro area population and economic growth and a positive relationship between both the number of municipalities per 100,000 residents and the number of counties per 100,000 residents and economic growth.
These findings suggest it is premature to conclude that the renewed population growth in non-metro areas first noted in the 1970s has ended."
Census Bureau population estimates for metro politan and nonmetropolitan areas in the 1970s reveal, for the first time in over 50 years, higher population growth and net in-migration for nonmetropolitan areas than metropolitan areas.
The models also reveal that the effect of the metro on the value of dwellings and commercial properties is largest within 701 to 900 meters of a metro station and is about 13 percent and 76 percent, respectively.
Most likely, most population growth and most employment growth is occurring in the outer suburbs, far from Metro stations.