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Austin, By the Numbers


  • Change in Austin/Round Rock unemployment rate from February to March, according to the Texas Workforce Commission : -.1% [reference]
  • Combined wattage of new solar panels installed at Austin's St. Gabriel's Catholic School: 21,000 [reference]
  • Equivalent pollution reduction this represents, in number of cars per year: 6
  • Amount hoped to be raised by Austin resident-slash-actor Dennis Quaid at his annual Charity Weekend in May : $500,000 [reference]
  • Number of pounds Quaid thinks he lost back in 1994 after developing manorexia: 42 [reference]
  • Number of single-family homes sold in March 2006: 2,400 [reference]
  • Total funding allocated to new internship program between tech consortium Sematech and Austin Community College: $4 million [reference]
  • Cost of a modest home on Valeria Street in Zilker neighborhood in 1953: $10,000 [reference]
  • Estimated population of Austin that year: 125,000
  • Increase in New Commercial Building Applications (permits) from 2004-2005 to 2005-2006, through March: 18% [reference]
  • Total firetrucks needed to contain a 50-acre fire in Caldwell County this week, plus unknown number of helicoptoers, : 18 [reference]
  • Number of Branch Davidians released from prison this week: 6 [reference]
  • For-sale items on austin.craigslist tagged "vintage": 992
  • Acreage of new manmade lake in Pflugerville: 180 [reference]
  • Estimated number of feet that a mobile home in Georgetown was thrown by last night's gusty winds: 50 [reference]
  • Check cut by 107.1 KGSR from proceeds of Broadcasts, Vol. 13 to the SIMS Foundation: $223,687 [reference]
  • Rank of Texas' high-tech sector versus other states, according to a national industry trade association report: 2 [reference]
  • Percentage of private sector employees in Texas employed by a high-tech firm: 5.7%
  • Amount allocated in 2006 city budget for bridge maintenance: $725,000 [reference]
  • Amount earmarked for school crossing guards: $1.13 million
  • Cost of a day trip to the "Barton Healing Springs" during ACL for out-of-towners, if booked through ACL Concierge Service : $106 [reference]
  • Realistic estimate of how much this would actually cost: $12
*Photo by Matt Wright on flickr. Idea borrowed from Harper's Index.

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