Why people move to Austin, by Angela, Morgan, Connor, and Josh.

Austin used to just be a small town, but quickly grew to become the 4th most populated city in Texas and is now the second fastest growing city in the U.S.

Here is an automated summarization of the most common words associated with Austin and why people move there.

This is a correlation of the population versus time. As you can tell, it has been a pretty steady increase. And using the line of best fit, we can pretty easily predict the population in the coming years. By 2020, the population of our city should be well over 900,000 and by 2025, Austin could be the home of 1,000,000 people! This graph was very important to our project because we related most of our data back to here. We looked at the years where there was the most population growth (such as 2000) and the least population growth (such as 1990) and then looked up significant events during that time that could have caused the change.

Every day, about 110 people move to Austin. Whether it be for the jobs or the food, this is a large number of people

We will be going through the reasons people are moving to Austin based on their age and status.

Young adults have been flocking to Austin for years, and we are going to tell you why

A quickly growing population, means that young adults come to where they know others will be, and for the last 10 years, this place has been Austin.

The opening of new buildings means that big companies have been moving to Austin. This has caused the unemployment rate to drop very low compared to the national average.

Austin is opened to all different views and political and is very tolerant unlike other states. It is typically liberal but all views are open.

Austin was ranked #3 on Livability's "Top 10 Best Cities for New College Grads".
Being the home of the University of Texas and its proximity to RIce University as well as A&M, make it an ideal location to live after graduating from college. Hot jobs in topics such as computer technology, research and development, and engineering give one more reason that graduates flock to Austin.

The title of the "live music capital of the world" is just one reason that Austin is a fun place to live. Daily concerts and events, South by SouthWest, ACL, the X Games, Austin Film Festival, and Formula 1 are many of the fun things that happen all around Austin. Austin is also known for its nightlife which makes the city even more fun.
One feature of Austin is its crazy food trucks all around the city. These food trucks aren't just in Austin, but they're certainly in full force here with over 1,500 registered food trucks.

Families have been coming to Austin for years. They might move here because of job opportunities but stay here for many other reasons.
In 1999, when the Austin Bergstorm International airport opened, it allowed people to easily fly into Austin and opened Austin to the world.
Austin has no individual state income tax and a low tax rate, making it ideal for parents trying to own land and raise a family.
Austin is also a typically friendly place with a low crime rate for its size and has nationaly ranked private and public schools, helping students reach college.

This demographic here shows the percentage of the total population between ages 25 to 35.
white shows Less than 2.5%
beige 2.5% to 5%
light brown 5% to 10%
red 10% to 15%
purple 15% Plus

In recent years, Austin has seen a lot of growth in the population of elderly citizens in Austin. These people might be moving to Austin because of the low crime rate for its size and population or for its healthy environment. Either way, Austin was recently rated as CBS news' "Top 110 Places To Retire".

This is a map showing the total number of seniors in the Austin metropolitan area by zip code.
The darker the color, the more seniors there are in that area.
Fewer than 500
500 to 1,000
1,000 to 2,000
2,000 to 3,000
3,000 to 4,000
4,000 to 4,999

This is a bubble graph of crime rate. As you can see by looking at out cluster graph, there are four distinct sections of the US. The northwest has a very light crime rate, while the south west has a moderate violent crime rate. The northeast has a light to moderate crime rate, in contrast to the south east which has a pretty heavy violent crime rate. Looking at Texas, although it doesn't have the lowest violent crime rate, is considered a pretty friendly taking into account the size and population of the state. It also has a lower crime rate than its neighbors.

Austin has always been a destination in Texas for tourists and here are some reasons why

Austin is the live music capital of the world and has band, singers, or performers all around the city daily. Austin also has Events going on all the time that people come from all around to see such as ACL and SXSW (South by SouthWest). Austin is also known for its abundant and unique food trucks that tourists can never get enough of.

Looking at these results. we can tell that many of the people that participated in our survey seem to like the unique food scene that we have here in Austin. A lot of the results agree with what we found through our Big Data analysis, that makes Austin a fun place to live.

Here's our sources, we are legally safe now.