Census

Eight of the 15 fastest growing cities in the country are in Texas, many of them in North Texas.

Officials believe the change will more accurately count residents who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern and North African heritage.

Kaufman County, east of Dallas, grew faster than any other in the country from 2022 to 2023. Harris County added the most new residents.

There are more women than men in some of the largest urban U.S. counties east of the Mississippi River, on the Eastern Seaboard and in the Deep South.

According to new Texas Demographic Center figures, the Austin region continues to grow at the fastest rate, but Fort Worth was the city that attracted the most new residents between 2020 and 2023.

U.S. Census Bureau is projecting that the U..S. population will become much older within a few decades — and more than a quarter of the population will be Hispanic.

Every month, 52-year-old Zolanda Cravin is faced with the same question: What will she have to cut out this month to ensure she can pay her bills?

A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas researchers say that economic growth, low taxes and big cities all can keep residents in their home states.

A growing number of people who identify as Latino or Hispanic identify as multiracial. That’s according to 2020 Census data.

Six of the top 10 U.S. counties with the largest numeric growth are in Texas.

The Senate Special Committee on Redistricting held hearings last week on the current map defining state Senate districts.The map, along with the rest of Texas’s political boundaries, were redrawn in 2021 by the Republican-majority Texas Legislature and are still seeing pushback from Democrats.

Texas is now home to 30 million people, a population record shared with only one other U.S. state: California. What does the influx of new residents mean for the state’s resources?