population

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?

Sometime today, the global population is forecast to hit 8 billion. The U.N. calls it a milestone for humanity, made possible by advances in public health and medicine. But there are also challenges.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area has seen a massive amount of population growth in recent decades. Now, smaller communities in Denton County are starting to feel the pressure.

Asian American and Pacific Islander voters said that candidates don’t often reach out — and that their elected officials don’t adequately represent their interests.

Black residents left the nation’s largest cities, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, by the tens of thousands and instead chose smaller cities like Fort Worth; Columbus, Ohio; Jacksonville, Florida; and Charlotte, North Carolina.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area has long attracted newcomers to Texas. In 2021 — even in the midst of a pandemic — that trend continued.

The Golden State continues to lead the pack of U.S. residents relocating to Texas each year.

The past year’s population growth rate in the United States was the slowest in a century due to declining births, increasing deaths and the slowdown of…

Every year, more people move to Texas from other states than leave. They come for jobs, higher education and a relatively lower cost of living, among...

The gap between Texas’ Hispanic and white populations continued to narrow last year when the state gained almost nine Hispanic residents for every…

For many years, the prospect that Hispanics would become the state’s largest population group has been a question of “when” and not “if.”With growth among…

The state’s population is still booming, and Hispanic Texans are driving a large portion of that growth. New population estimates released Thursday by the…