re: SEC Metro Growth Rates

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Do you realize how small your 1% is?

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well it's larger than -.15 and good enough for the top half of the SEC.


but you go on ahead with that argument.

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When the decade started, metro Starkville was slightly larger than metro Oxford. Now just 8 years later, Oxford is over 10% larger in population and the gap is widening quickly.

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Starkville is still bigger than Oxford and more people live within 20 miles of Starkville than they they do Oxford. You're info is incorrect.

SEC Major City Growth Rates 2010 to 2018
1. Dallas (+1,087,683)
2. Houston (+1,049,975)
3. Atlanta (+647,248)
4. Miami (+615,235)
5. Austin (+440,788)
6. Orlando (+433,763)
7. San Antonio (+364,998)
8. Tampa (+354,196)
9. Nashville (+255,486)
10. Jacksonville (+185,812)


SEC Major City Growth Rates 2010 to 2018 by %
1. Austin (+25.52%)
2. Orlando (+20.28%)
3. Houston (+17.65%)
4. San Antonio (+16.95%)
5. Dallas (+16.86%)
6. Nashville (+15.25%)
7. Jacksonville (+13.78%)
8. Tampa (+12.71%)
9. Atlanta (+12.21%)
10. Miami (+11.02%)
11. Lexington, KY (+9.14%)
12. Kansas City (+6.47%)

If you still live in Oxford, then you either never left college, are a professor, or a member of the campus police. My guess is that you are the latter.

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Only in white supremacy tactics.

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You really wanna go there?

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What, exactly, is this near useless statistic supposed to prove?

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It proves how fast SEC metros are growing. That, itself, doesn't prove a lot other than where people are moving to.

It's way more interesting than about 90% of other off-season thread topics.

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NW Arkansas is a good place to live, just not for me. Over populated

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Yep. It was the best kept secret for decades. Lived in Fayetteville until 2015. The roads weren't ready for the growth even back then. I can only imagine how bad traffic is now. Other than that it's an absolutely gorgeous city. frick the bikers, though.

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When the decade started, metro Starkville was slightly larger than metro Oxford. Now just 8 years later, Oxford is over 10% larger in population and the gap is widening quickly.

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Both "metro areas" are just the county in which the town is located, and both counties are around 50k people. I don't see a lot of difference. One or two years of trending in the other direction and they're pretty much dead even again.

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Yep. It was the best kept secret for decades. Lived in Fayetteville until 2015. The roads weren't ready for the growth even back then. I can only imagine how bad traffic is now.

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Every week I see another traffic clusterfrick and go "how the hell did we get here?"

Today, it was coming back from my favorite street taco place in Springdale and the line to turn left onto Zion Rd was backed all the way down the hill. I have no idea why, but I'd never seen or noticed that before. Also, Wedington Road is a complete disaster, so of course they are building houses hand-over-fist out there still.

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My job was on Wedington/N. Salem. Had to drive through that shite every damn day.

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I don't understand people living in one city and commuting to work in another one around here anymore.

Maybe work in Springdale and live in Fayetteville, but there's no way in hell I'd make that commute to Benton County from Fayetteville every day. Once you get off the highway on either end, you're sitting in traffic during rush hour.

I guess ours is still tame compared to DFW or Chicago or wherever (where a lot of transplants are arriving from). But I remember referring to our "rush hour" as a "rush 10 minutes" about a decade ago.