Theresa Carroll said she noticed a lack of older people in the city when she moved here from the Midwest. So, she asked KUT's ATXplained project: What's the average age in Austin, and where do older people go?
Theresa Carroll moved to Austin with her husband two years ago from the Midwest, looking for somewhere to retire. Straightaway, Carroll noticed a lack of older people in the city.So she asked KUT's ATXplained project what the average age in Austin is and where older people go.
“Migration in Austin is going to be related mostly to the workforce,” Valencia said, “so they’re going to be between 24-40 years, and so that tends to help keep the population young.”“The child population in Austin is growing, but it's not growing like it is in other Texas cities,” Valencia said.
Sterling Shepphard, who has lived in Austin for 60 years, said he’s noticed the prices of homes rise, making it increasingly difficult for seniors to live here. “Through a lot of systematic racism, you’re pushing them out,” he said. “The City of Austin has had a big part in that, instead of creating housing for senior citizens and minorities, when they do build a complex, it's for the people that have higher incomes.”“They come up with all this rail system that goes west. Nothing goes east, where a few more minorities stay.
Carroll, who lives in North Austin, said the public transportation near her has been consistently unreliable.
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