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Can these boomtowns accommodate their new residents?

by Emily Marek

via moveBuddha

Experts predict that Atlanta — along with several other fast-growing cities — will be one of the most populated places in America by 2100. But can these metros actually handle all that growth?

Based on population trends from the U.S. Census Bureau, Atlanta will be home to 18,370,497 people by 2100, making it the sixth most populated metro area in the country. moveBuddha examined a number of factors that impact a city’s ability to accommodate its residents, like school availability, hospital beds, traffic and housing, to determine just how well A-Town will handle over 12 million new Atlantans.

Projections show that Atlanta will need to add over 4.8 million households by 2100 in order to keep the same people-to-household ratio as 2021. That’s not all — the metro would also need to expand by over 2,000 square miles in order to fit all that new housing.

Furthermore, Atlanta would need over 9,000 additional hospital beds and nearly 4,000 new schools, all while a total of 13,050,454 drivers cause traffic.

Atlanta isn’t the only metro that needs to expand in order to accommodate its future residents. moveBuddha predicts that Dallas, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Orlando and Miami also have a lot of growing to do as population continues to shift around the U.S. during the remainder of the 21st century.

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