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Originally Posted by AviationGuy
Which suburbs did Austin annex? I thought it was a big city pretty much in its own right. But I'm not sure.
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Austin has done some annexing of developed areas (Circle C for example with about 50,000 residents), but most of the growth in population in Austin has been inside of undeveloped (or about to be developed) land in unincorporated parts of Travis County and a bit of Williamson County through traditional annexation methods over a 40 or 50 year period. It is is the way most sunbelt cities have expanded since WW2, and not unlike the way NY, LA, and Chicago expanded in the first half of the 20th Century. Austin does not try to annex large suburbs, and it is now pretty much surrounded to the north, northeast, northwest, and west by suburban municipalities. Circle C was unincorporated when it was annexed back in the late 1990s.