Texas Population Grew to 28.3 Million in 2017
Style Magazine Newswire | 12/29/2017, 8:54 a.m.
Hays County, the fastest growing Texas county
Source: TexasTribune.org
After gaining almost 400,000 new residents in one year, Texas is now home to 28.3 million people. New estimates by the Census Bureau show Texas crossed that population threshold between July 2016 and July 2017 following years of steady growth since the 2010 Census when the state’s population topped off at 25.1 million. Texas had the seventh fastest growth rate in the country in the past year – 1.4 percent – and it experienced the biggest numeric population growth of any state. But unlike last year, a majority of the state’s growth came from natural increase — Texans having more babies — and not people moving to the state. Of the roughly 400,000 residents the state gained over the past year, the addition of 209,690 residents was attributed to natural increase. The state added another 189,580 residents as a result of net migration — the difference between the number of people leaving Texas for other places and the number of people coming to Texas.
