The spatial pattern of demographic change that can be seen in the demographic change map below is both striking and simple. With a few scattered exceptions, the tracts that experienced demographic change vis-à-vis the MSA as a whole are overwhelmingly concentrated in a ring surrounding downtown Austin. This pattern confirms, for Austin, the “Great Inversion” thesis for the United States as a whole, discussed earlier in the report. Living in and near the urban core has become strikingly sought after by advantaged populations in Austin: homeowners, the educated, the high-income, and whites. The implications for the near future are easy to predict: It seems logical that the next ring out of census tracts, surrounding those in the urban core that have already experienced demographic change, will be next to experience such dramatic change.