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Figure 6: Percentage of Land Use Classes
4 Demographics 4.1. THE SITE, SURROUNDING CENSUS BLOCK GROUPS, AND AUSTIN Because the development site intersects with four Census Block Groups, the exact number of people within the bounds of the study area is difficult to determine. When collecting data from the American Community Survey’s 2016 dataset, data from was pulled for both the Block Groups 1 and 2 in each of the Census Tracts 18.42 and 18.56. In those Census Block Groups, there are 18,354 people residing in the local block group area. An exact estimation is impossible without conducting a census within the boundaries of the study site. The site population density is low in comparison to the rest of Austin. As shown in Figure 7, the average population density ranges between 0 and 4,900 people. However, along the Western periphery of the study there are clearly denser pockets of development, where large scale developments have been built.
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