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Welcome to Austin, Texas! If you are relocating to Austin, consider yourself lucky. Everyone loves Austin and those who visit wish they lived here. Austin is part of the beautiful Texas Hill Country with lakes, rivers and spectatular scenery. Austin has a quality of life that is unsurpassed ~ a beautiful city with year round great weather, friendly diverse people, and an economic climate that includes education, government, health care, high tech, of couse, entertainment including movies and music. A city renowned for its casually elegant lifestyle, Austin is known as “The Live Music Capital of the World”. Austin serves as the capitol of the state of Texas and is home to The University of Texas at Austin.
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Quick Facts:
Austin is located in Central Texas along the Colorado River, which forms a chain of lakes 150 miles long.
Austin has a temperate climate with 300 days of sunshine annually. Average temperatures range from 42° to 62° in the winter and 75° to 95° in the summer. Average rainfall is 32.49 inches.
Austin has over 14,000 acres of parkland.
The U.S. Census Bureau ranks Austin 16th in the nation in population size and the 4th largest city in Texas; as a metropolitan area it ranks 38th. The 2009 estimates indicated Austin’s population at nearly 775,000 and the Metropolitan Statistical Area at approximately 1,700,000.
Austin’s adult population is highly educated. Eighty-two percent of residents have graduated from high school, 35 percent have a bachelor’s degree and 11 percent have received a graduate degree.
Austin consistently ranks high on lists of best places to live, work, and play.
Rank List By1 Best Places to Live—Big Cities MSN House & Home
1 Best City for Hispanics (2004) Hispanic
2 Best Large City for Relocating Worldwide ERC & Primacy
3 Best Places for Singles (2004) Forbes
3 Top Growth Cities U-Haul
3 Great Places to Live Life 2.0
4 Fastest Growing Cities Men’s Journal
4 Smartest Cities Men’s Journal
10 Interesting Neighborhoods Travel-Leisure, America’s Favorite Cities
18 Top US Destination Cities U-Haul
22 Top Rated Cities (2004) Cities Ranked & Rated by Sterling/Sander
26 Brainiest Cities American City Business Journals
27 Best Cities for Families Child.com
28 Large Kid-Friendly Cities (2004) Population Connection
32 Fiscally Fit Places Sperling’s BestPlaces
35 Best Places to Live Men’s Journal
Other Austin Accolades
- Austin ranks as the 4th Best City in Overall Standard of Living by Expansion Management
- Austin ranks 2nd among the Top 10 Best Big Citites in the country by cnn.money.com
- Austin ranks as the 3rd Smartest City in the country by Bizjournals.com
- Austin ranks in the Top 5 "Smart Places to Live" by Kiplinger's Personal Finance and the Austin Business Journal
- Austin ranked 28th in the Best Places for Business and Careers by Forbes
- Austin ranks 2nds in the 50th Best Places to Live by Men's Journal
- Austin ranks 6th int he Top 10 Cities for Walking by Prevention Magazine
- Austin ranks as the Best Place to Live in America for Hispanics by Hispanic Magazine for the second year in a row
- Austin ranks as the 2nd Best Place to Live for Moviemakers by Moviemaker Magazine
- Austin ranks 3rd Best Wireless Place to Live in America by Livescience.com
- Austin ranks 2nd among the 10 Best Places to Live, judging on financial, educational and quality of life criteria by Money magazine
- Austin was included in the 8 Cheapest Places You'd Want to Live survey by Sperling's Best Places
- Austin ranks 2nd among the 50 Best Places to Live comparing the combinations of adventure, attractiveness, and affordability by Men's Journal
- Austin was voted the Best Place to Live for Future Business Locations by Expansion magazine
- Austin ranks 9th in the Top 10 Hot Cities for Entrepreneurs by Entrepreeur.com
- According to Dog Fancy Magazine, Austin is one of the Top 10 Cities to Be a Dog
- Austin ranks 8th of America's Cleanest Cities by Reader's Digest
- Austin ranks 10th in the Top 10 Healthiest Cities in America by Sperling's
- Austin ranks 11th in the 25 Best Running Cities in America poll by Runners World
- Austin makes the cut as one of the 50 Fabulous Gay-Friendly Places to Live by Gregory A. Kompes
- Austin ranks 2nd on Vegetarian Times' Ten Greenest Cities list
- Pollstar names Austin City Limits Music Festival the "Festival of the Year" during its annual Concert Industry Awards
- American Way magazine feature "The Top 10 Lists of Great American Music" and Austin appears on three of the lists including "Great Music Towns", "Great Bigger-is'Better Music Festival", and the Austin City Limits Music Festive and "Sacred Ground" for Threadgill's restaurant
- Austin ranks 6th in a study by Silcon Valley naming the nation's Top Tech Hubs. The study compared business and quality of life issues, claiming Austin has affordable housing, electricity and state taxes
- Austin is among the Coolest Cities for Young Professionals according to Kiplinger.com
- Austin ranks 1st among U.S. cities in the fourth annual Mayors Challenge rankings of the Best Cities for Future Business Locations by Management magazine
- Each year, Intel ranks the Top 100 U.S. Cities and Regions with the Greatest Number of Commercial and Public Wireless Internet Access Points and Austin ranks third
- Austin ranks 3rd in a list of America's Most Innovative Cities by the Wall Street Journal
- Austin ranks 40th Most Fun U.S. City in a survey conducted by Cranium Inc
- Austin is also a past winner of the coveted All-American City Award from the National Civic League.
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