The Top 6 Population Trends that Will Affect Texas Real Estate by Year 2030

Remember when you were young and the future seemed so far away? When I growing up in San Antonio circa the late 1980s, I imagined that the Year 2000 would feel foreign.

I thought we'd still have rush-hour traffic, but our flying cars would improve it. We'd colonize Mars after our natural resources were depleted. We'd talk to people in other worlds via video phones and tiny electronic devices.

25 years or so later, my childhood predictions still haven't fully materialized. Now futurists are thinking about the years 2030. What are the population trends? Where will people live in the year 2030?

POPULATION TREND PREDICTIONS FOR THE YEAR 2030
According to a Realty Times article published this year....

• By 2010 over 40 percent of all households will be comprised of an age group over 55 years.
• The Spanish speaking population will increase from 31.4 million in 2000 to nearly 65.6 million in 2030.
• Total US population is estimated at 400 million in 2030.
• The traditional household (married couple with children) which comprised 90 percent of the households in 1950 will comprise only 65 percent of the households in 2030.
• 29 percent of the US households will be living alone in 2030.
• From 2000 to 2030, the U.S. population will grow by 82 million, 72 million of this growth will occur in the South and the West (states in the U.S.).

Read the full story and see other trends: Realty Times - Upcoming Trends. According to the writer, "Much of the projected future growth will be in Texas, California, Florida, Virginia, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Georgia and North Carolina".

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Comments

[anonymous]

Point 3 and point 6 don't work out, considering we just hit an estimated 300 million people in the US this year.

[Dee Copeland]

Geez Louise! That's good info. thanks for the comment! It's amazing how fast our population is growing. I'm sure these numbers will be updated soon.

I wasn't too surprised that the Boomers want sunshine and beaches in the South and West, but I wonder what's going to happen to Northern States. I'd love to see if the numbers show whether they're losing residents or that we're simply going to have more births in the South and West.