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Census data: Housing affordability, poverty and other challenges facing Travis County

Published on January 10, 2017 under CommunityImpact

Affordability is among the major challenges for Travis County’s population, according to 2015 American Community Survey data presented Tuesday during the Travis County Commissioners Court meeting. Highlights from the survey, which is made available through the U.S. Census Bureau, are summarized annually to provide a snapshot of the county, said Tara Carmean, senior planner with Travis County’s Health and Human Services department. There were about 1,176,558 people living in Travis County as of 2015, with 869,587 of them living in Austin, according to the survey. From 2011 to 2015, the Travis County population grew 11 percent compared with 7 percent statewide […]

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