13-County Houston-Galveston Region: Population Inside the 100 Year Floodplain (2035)

Houston-Galveston Area Council

Over five million people live in the Houston-Galveston region today, and the population is projected to grow to over 8.8 million by 2035. A region of this size is continually evolving and developing to support the growing population.

The Houston-Galveston region also contains over 4,500 square miles of floodplains. The intersection of people and floodplains produces a mixture of environmental and socioeconomic risks for the region. The analysis for this project was performed as part of a regional global climate change and flood hazards initiative.

The analytical methods involved a combination of ArcGIS spatial analysis tools as well as analytical and data manipulation methods in SAS. The integration of ArcGIS and SAS allowed for a large amount of data to be gathered and processed. This map was one in a series that represented the culmination of the project's efforts.

Copyright William M. Bass, Houston-Galveston Area Council, 2008.

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