Our City
Austin Quick Facts
- Median age of 31.8
- 300 Average days of sunshine per year
- 2,705 square miles of Metro area
- Highest bookstore sales in the U.S. ($195 per household)
- Most computer literate city in America, with more than 69% of the populace using computers
- Most highly educated workforce in the country - 64% of adults have completed one or more years of college
- 16th largest city in the country
- Nicknamed “Silicon Hills”, “Waterloo”, “River City” and “The Live Music Capital of the World”
- 10 area public school districts and numerous private schools
- Home of the University of Texas at Austin, the 3rd largest state university in the country
- Fortune Magazine ranked Austin “The Best City for Business in North America”
Chartered in 1839 as the capital of the Republic of Texas, Austin became the state capital when Texas was admitted to the Union in 1846 as the twenty-eighth state. Austin is now the fourth largest city in the state and the sixteenth most populous city in the nation.
Austin is in Travis County. The Austin-San Marcos Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, and Williamson Counties.
Located in the Central Texas Hill Country, Austin is approximately 230 miles from Mexico and less than 200 miles from 3 of the 10 largest U.S. cities (192 miles from Dallas to its north, 79 miles from San Antonio to its south, and 162 miles from Houston to its southeast).
Occupying a land area of 271.8 square miles, Austin had a 2000 census population of 656, 562. The current population of Austin, as of April 1, 2002, is 680, 899 - 52.9 percent white, 30.5 percent Hispanic, 9.8 percent African American and 4.7 percent Asian and 2.1 percent other. (1, 306, 627 in the Austin Metropolitan Statistical Area).
Austin averages 300 days of sunshine each year and about 33.78 inches of rainfall. It rarely snows in Austin.
The City of Austin has a council-manager form of government. The City Council comprises seven Council Members, including the Mayor. Council Members are elected at-large for staggered three-year terms. Click here for information regarding regular Council Meeting locations and times. The Council Members' offices are in the Municipal Building at 301 West Second St., Austin, Texas 78701. The mailing address for all Council Members and the City Manager is P.O. Box 1088, Austin, Texas 78767.
The City Manager is appointed by the City Council and has overall responsibility for the management of all City employees and the administration of all City affairs. The City Manager's office is also in the Municipal Building.
Source: AustinTexas.org and City of Austin
Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed
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