[318], The eight-county Greater Houston metropolitan area contains over 25,000 miles (40,000km) of roadway, of which 10%, or approximately 2,500 miles (4,000km), is limited-access highway. [109] Ground-level ozone, or smog, is Houston's predominant air pollution problem, with the American Lung Association rating the metropolitan area's ozone level twelfth on the "Most Polluted Cities by Ozone" in 2017, after major cities such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, New York City, and Denver. [2] An estimated 600,000 undocumented immigrants resided in the Houston area in 2017,[120] comprising nearly 9% of the city's metropolitan population. [258] The current mayor of Houston is Sylvester Turner, a Democrat elected on a nonpartisan ballot. It is the fourth most populous city in the United States after New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, and the sixth most populous city in North America. Houston is also one of the first cities in the world to have a major esports team represent it, in the form of the Houston Outlaws. The median rental costs in recent years comes to - per month, and the median house value is -. Top 25 cities in the U.S. with the highest resident population in 2021 (in 1,000) [Graph], US Census Bureau, May 16 . 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[350], The Mayor's Office of Trade and International Affairs (MOTIA) is the city's liaison to Houston's sister cities and to the national governing organization, Sister Cities International. [337] The network expanded to 29 stations and 225 bicycles in 2014, registering over 43,000 checkouts of equipment during the first half of the same year. [94] Houston's characteristic subtropical humidity often results in a higher apparent temperature, and summer mornings average over 90% relative humidity. 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[12] In the mid-20th century, Houston's economy diversified, as it became home to the Texas Medical Centerthe world's largest concentration of healthcare and research institutionsand NASA's Johnson Space Center, home to the Mission Control Center. [195], In 2006, the Houston metropolitan area ranked first in Texas and third in the U.S. within the category of "Best Places for Business and Careers" by Forbes magazine. Around 80,000 people moved to the DFW area in 2020. Click the Quick Info icon to the left of each row in TABLE view to learn about sampling error. This data point and the data on this page is from the U.S. Census Bureau, Resident Population in Houston County, Minnesota [MNHOUS5POP] , retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis . In 1997, Houstonians elected Lee P. Brown as the city's first African American mayor. The Houston Post was owned by the family of former Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby of Houston. Houston was founded on August 30, 1836 by brothers Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen on land near the banks of Buffalo Bayou. Venues across Houston regularly host local and touring rock, blues, country, dubstep, and Tejano musical acts. Texas Southern University is the first state university in Houston, founded in 1927.[286]. After the war, Houston's economy reverted to being primarily port-driven. [271] The FBI's Uniform Crime Report (UCR) indicates a downward trend of violent crime in Houston over the ten- and twenty-year periods ending in 2016, which is consistent with national trends. [204] In 2010, the city was rated the best city for shopping, according to Forbes. [108] The majority of rainfall occurs between April and October (the wet season of Southeast Texas), when the moisture from the Gulf of Mexico evaporates extensively over the city. [213] Other notable annual events include the Houston Greek Festival,[214] Art Car Parade, the Houston Auto Show, the Houston International Festival,[215] and the Bayou City Art Festival, which is considered to be one of the top five art festivals in the United States. Houston's total crime rate including violent and nonviolent crimes decreased by 11 percent. [131] Individuals from two or more races made up 2.1% of the city. [331], Houston has the largest number of bike commuters in Texas with over 160 miles of dedicated bikeways. Texas ranked first among the states for the number of residents added from 2020 to 2021, which . Houston and Dallas have been recognized as beta world cities. Other tourist attractions include the Galleria (Texas's largest shopping mall, in the Uptown District), Old Market Square, the Downtown Aquarium, and Sam Houston Race Park. In 2001, Enron Corporation, a Houston company with $100 billion in revenue, became engulfed in an accounting scandal which bankrupted the company in 2001. In 2005, the Houston Dynamo soccer team was formed. Two of these airports, George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P. Hobby Airport, offer commercial aviation service to a variety of domestic and international destinations and served 55 million passengers in 2016. QuickFacts data are derived from: Population Estimates, American Community Survey, Census of Population and Housing, Current Population Survey, Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, State and County Housing Unit Estimates, County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics, Economic Census, Survey of Business Owners, Building Permits. Different vintage years of estimates are not comparable. Arterial roads are organized into four categories, in decreasing order of intensity: major thoroughfares, transit corridor streets, collector streets, and local streets. that puts the potential population loss around 52,000about the equivalent of the city of Galveston or about 2% of Houston's overall population. Houston's Hispanic population is increasing rapidly as more Latin American immigrants move to the area to work. [269] In 2010, the city's murder rate (per capita rate of 11.8 murders per 100,000 population) was ranked sixth among U.S. cities with a population of over 750,000 (behind New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, and Philadelphia) according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1,154,069 are Male (49.6%) and 1,172,021 are Female (50.4%), Sex ratio is 98.5 (males for 100 females). [citation needed] Around 2007, more heart surgeries were performed at the Texas Medical Center than anywhere else in the world.[301]. Please check your download folder. Houston averaged 1.59 cars per household in 2016, compared to a national average of 1.8. 71.37% of Houston residents were born in the United States, with 52.23% having been born in Texas. Download Historical Data. Earl R. Verbeek, Karl W. Ratzlaff, Uel S. Clanton. In addition, NRGAstrodome was the first indoor stadium in the world, built in 1965. What's the Current Population in Houston County, Georgia? The thick, rich, sometimes black, surface soil is suitable for rice farming in suburban outskirts where the city continues to grow.[69][70]. [150], Before the 1970s, the city's gay bars were spread around Downtown Houston and what is now midtown Houston. [223][224][225], The Houston Theater District, in Downtown, is home to nine major performing arts organizations and six performance halls. A succession of skyscrapers was built throughout the 1970smany by real estate developer Gerald D. Hinesculminating with Houston's tallest skyscraper, the 75-floor, 1,002-foot (305m)-tall JPMorgan Chase Tower (formerly the Texas Commerce Tower), completed in 1982. As of May 2021, I graduated . The city's fiscal year begins on July 1 and ends on June 30. The city won its first baseball championship during the 2017 event and won again 5 years later. [163] The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston claims approximately 1.7 million Catholics within its boundaries. This trend toward lower rates of violent crime in Houston includes the murder rate, though it had seen a four-year uptick that lasted through 2015. [95] Air conditioning is ubiquitous in Houston; in 1981, annual spending on electricity for interior cooling exceeded $600 million (equivalent to $1.79 billion in 2021), and by the late 1990s, approximately 90% of Houston homes featured air conditioning systems. [81], In referendums in 1948, 1962, and 1993, voters rejected efforts to establish separate residential and commercial land-use districts. By 1930, Houston had become Texas's most populous city and Harris County the most populous county. By 1890, Houston was the railroad center of Texas. Demographic data includes, but is not limited to: population . [54] The rainfall exceeded 50 inches in several areas locally, breaking the national record for rainfall. [300] All 49 member institutions of the Texas Medical Center are non-profit organizations. Houston is the seat of the Texas Medical Center, which is the largest medical center in the world,[299] and describes itself as containing the world's largest concentration of research and healthcare institutions. Age See More Age Data. The Houston City Council passed this regulation in 2018 with a vote of 97. 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In the 2000s, the Baylor College of Medicine was annually considered within the top ten medical schools in the nation; likewise, the MD Anderson Cancer Center had been consistently ranked as one of the top two U.S. hospitals specializing in cancer care by U.S. News & World Report since 1990. We have provided a few examples below that you can copy and paste to your site: Your data export is now complete. [254] The event had a 5-year race contract through 2017 with IndyCar. The arrival of the 20th century brought a convergence of economic factors that fueled rapid growth in Houston, including a burgeoning port and railroad industry, the decline of Galveston as Texas's primary port following a devastating 1900 hurricane, the subsequent construction of the Houston Ship Channel, and the Texas oil boom. In: Allen, Carol M. (editor). [274][275], In 1853, the first execution in Houston took place in public at Founder's Cemetery in the Fourth Ward; initially, the cemetery was the execution site, but post-1868 executions took place in the jail facilities.[276]. [158] Other Christian groups including Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christianity, and non-Christian religions did not grow for much of the city's history because immigration was predominantly from Western Europe (which at the time was dominated by Western Christianity and favored by the quotas in federal immigration law). [196] Ninety-one foreign governments have established consular offices in Houston's metropolitan area, the third-highest in the nation. They began going to Art Wren, a 24-hour restaurant in Montrose. By the 1950s, its economy shifted toward energy has large companies began relocating to Houston. Downtown was on the threshold of an energy industryled boom in 1970. The new NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) law in Florida, signed by Governor Ron DeSantis last week, will purportedly "open the door" for college athletes to build on their individual brand and use it as they transition out of sports into the business world when they graduate. In 2003, the Toyota Center opened as the home for the Houston Rockets. Houston: The Economy at a Glance is a free monthly publication, which offers the . [341] The four-runway, 1,304-acre (528-hectare) facility is approximately 7 miles (11km) southeast of Downtown Houston. [171], Houston has a large and diverse Muslim community; it is the largest in Texas and the Southern United States, as of 2012. Houston is no exception. [13][14] The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled and second in total cargo tonnage handled. If you use our datasets on your site or blog, we ask that you provide attribution via a link back to this page. Houston was the headquarters of Continental Airlines until its 2010 merger with United Airlines with headquarters in Chicago; regulatory approval for the merger was granted in October of that year. KUHT channel 8 (Houston Public Media) is a PBS member station and is the first public television station in the United States. Consequently, rather than a single central business district as the center of the city's employment, multiple districts and skylines have grown throughout the city in addition to Downtown, which include Uptown, the Texas Medical Center, Midtown, Greenway Plaza, Memorial City, the Energy Corridor, Westchase, and Greenspoint. Houston is the most populous city, with a population of 2.2 million, followed by San Antonio with a population of 1.4 million and Dallas with a population count of 1.3 million. Though primarily in Harris County, small portions of the city extend into Fort Bend, and Montgomery counties, bordering other principal communities of Greater Houston such as Sugar Land and The Woodlands. According to the 2005 Houston Area Survey, 68percent of non-Hispanic whites in Harris County are declared or favor Republicans while 89 percent of non-Hispanic blacks in the area are declared or favor Democrats. Percent Population by Age Group Zip Code: 77081 Zip Code: 77081 County: Harris State: Texas 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-17 18-20 21-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74 75-84 85+ 0 5 10 15 20. The county has approximately 334 confined in facilities with 295 male and 39 female prisoners. In September 2010, Outreach magazine published a list of the 100 largest Christian churches in the United States, and on the list were the following Houston-area churches: Lakewood, Second Baptist Church Houston, Woodlands Church, Church Without Walls, and First Baptist Church. [121] At the 2010 United States census, Houston had a population of 2,100,263 residents,[122] up from the city's 2,396 at the 1850 census. A 2017 study by the Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research found 56% of Harris County residents have a preference for dense housing in a mixed-use, walkable setting as opposed to single-family housing in a low-density area. Houston is recognized worldwide for its energy industryparticularly for oil and natural gasas well as for biomedical research and aeronautics. The Sam Houston Tollway, which encompasses the mainlanes of Beltway 8 (as opposed to the frontage roads, which are untolled), is the longest tollway in the system, covering the entirety of the Beltway with the exception of a free section between Interstate 45 and Interstate 69 near George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Of those not born in the United States, the largest percentage are from Latin America. By Shelby Stewart September 1, 2021 [313] A 1999 Murdoch University study found Houston had both the lengthiest commute and lowest urban density of 13 large American cities surveyed,[314] and a 2017 Arcadis study ranked Houston 22nd out of 23 American cities in transportation sustainability. Space Center Houston is the official visitors' center of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. [143], In 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, non-Hispanic whites made up 23.3% of the population of Houston proper, Hispanics and Latino Americans 45.8%, Blacks or African Americans 22.4%, and Asian Americans 6.5%. [277] HISD has over 100 campuses that serve as magnet or vanguard schoolsspecializing in such disciplines as health professions, visual and performing arts, and the sciences. [47] Health care has emerged as a major industry in Houston. [107] Overall, there have been more casualties and property loss from floods in Houston than in any other locality in the United States. System produces every year who enter the workforce in Houston and throughout Texas. [194][195] This is in addition to the 12,500 new graduates the U.H. [258] Under the city charter, once the population in the city limits exceeded 2.1 million residents, two additional districts were to be added. [320] Completed segments D through G provide a continuous 70.4-mile (113.3km) limited-access tollway connection between Sugar Land, Katy, Cypress, Spring, and Porter.[320]. [172] As of 2016, Muslims in the Houston area included South Asians, Middle Easterners, Africans, Turks, and Indonesians, as well as a growing population of Latino Muslim converts. [351][352], See: List of colleges and universities in Houston, For a complete listing, see list of cities and towns in HoustonThe WoodlandsSugar Land MSA. The Houston Texans were formed in 2002 as an NFL expansion team, replacing the Houston Oilers, which had left the city in 1996. Houston has the NFL's first retractable-roof stadium with natural grass, NRG Stadium (home of the Texans). [62] Downtown stands about 50 feet (15m) above sea level,[63] and the highest point in far northwest Houston is about 150 feet (46m) in elevation. [112] Excessive man-made emissions in the Houston area led to a persistent increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide over the city. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 removed the quotas, allowing for the growth of other religions. Sachin D. Shah and Jennifer Lanning-Rush. The largest and longest-running is the annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, held over 20days from early to late March, and is the largest annual livestock show and rodeo in the world. Houston is 165 miles (266km) east of Austin,[57] 88 miles (142km) west of the Louisiana border,[58] and 250 miles (400km) south of Dallas. The highest rate of high school graduation is among white people with a rate of 86.22%. [94] Twenty-first century snow events in Houston include a storm on December 24, 2004, which saw 1 inch (3cm) of snow accumulate in parts of the metro area,[98] and an event on December 7, 2017, which precipitated 0.7 inches (2cm) of snowfall. [166] The most prominent Eastern and Oriental Orthodox jurisdictions are the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America,[167] the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America,[168] the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria,[169] and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Houston's mayor serves as the city's chief administrator, executive officer, and official representative, and is responsible for the general management of the city and for seeing all laws and ordinances are enforced.[259]. African Americans formed a large part of the city's population, numbering 23,929 people, which was nearly one-third of Houston's residents. Houston is the economic center of Houston-The Woodlands-Sugarland, which is the 5th largest metropolitan area in the United States with over 6 million people. [263] During 19912015, the city controller and city council members were subjected to a two-year, three-term limitationthe 2015 referendum amended term limits to two four-year terms. The tallest building in Uptown is the 64-floor, 901-foot (275m)-tall, Philip Johnson and John Burgee designed landmark Williams Tower (known as the Transco Tower until 1999). These new migrants have helped make D-FW the fourth largest metro area in the . Houston Is the 13th Fastest-growing Large Metro Area in the U.S. From 2015 - 2020, Houston saw a 7.3 percent increase in population. [152], Before the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States the Marriage of Billie Ert and Antonio Molina, considered the first same-sex marriage in Texas history, took place on October 5, 1972. [45], Houston has continued to grow into the 21st century, with the population increasing 17% from 2000 to 2019.[46]. They paid $5,000 total, but only $1,000 of this in cash; notes made up the remainder. The city has hosted several major professional and college sporting events, including the annual Houston Open golf tournament. Hearst Communications, which owns and operates the Houston Chronicle, bought the assets of the Houston Postits long-time rival and main competitionwhen Houston Post ceased operations in 1995. Houston (/hjustn/ (listen); HEW-stn) is the most populous city in Texas and in the Southern United States. 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