The four most populated metro areas in Texas saw large population increases between 2022 and 2023, including Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, which ranked first and second in the nation, respectively.
Madaleine Rubin, The Texas TribuneWatch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clockrecent estimates from the U.S. Census BureauKaufman County, just east of Dallas, led the list with a 7.6% increase that brought its population over 185,000, Census data shows. Rockwall and Liberty counties followed closely behind, each with growth bursts of 6.5% and 5.7%, respectively.Six of the 10 U.S. counties with the largest residential growth rates between 2022 and 2023 were in Texas.
"Domestic migration patterns are changing, and the impact on counties is especially evident," said Lauren Bowers, chief of the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Branch, in a Thursday statement.Texas also holds eight out of the ten counties across the country that added the most residents from 2022 to 2023. Harris, Collin and, Montgomery counties led the pack.
Collin, Denton, and Tarrant counties in the Dallas-Fort Worth area also had significant gains, bringing in tens of thousands of new people. Denton is now the seventh county in Texas to surpass 1 million residents.. The state grew more than any other in the country in 2023 by nearly half a million people, according to earlier Census estimates.
But the Midland metro area grew more rapidly than any of them. From 2022 to 2023, Midland's population increased by nearly 3% - making it the seventh fastest-growing metro area in the country.in the U.S., and is home to much of Texas' oil and gas production.
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