Houston-Galveston Area Council 2025 Regional Growth Forecast ...

OVERVIEW: THE 2025 REGIONAL GROWTH FORECAST
Since 1990, the Houston Area has experienced the
sixth largest population increase among U.S. metro
areas, nearly one million people. According to the
Houston-Galveston Area Council’s 2025 Regional
Growth Forecast, this strong growth will continue.
The metro area is expected to grow by another
three million people in the next 25 years, reaching
a population of more than 7.6 million in 2025.
H-GAC is responsible for
producing Regional
Transportation Plans (RTP)
for the Houston-Galveston
H-GAC staff prepared this
forecast using state-of-theart
modeling techniques to
better account for the way
demographic, economic and
land use factors shape the
region's growth. H-GAC also
enhanced its capabilities to
quickly integrate information
about new development into
its forecasting process.
In addition to being the primary
demographic input into
H-GAC's 2025 Regional
Transportation Plan (RTP) 1 ,
the 2025 Regional Growth
Forecast will also benefit
other public and private sector
long-range planning
efforts. Along with the summary
information presented
in this document, more
detailed forecast data is also
available. More information
on forecast data products can
be obtained from H-GAC's
web site, www.h-gac.com, or
by calling (713) 627-3200.
metropolitan area.
1 For a complete review of the region's transportation plan, see the H-GAC 2025 RTP.
2