Fort Worth, Lewisville, and McKinney led the Metroplex in raw growth, while Dallas remained stagnant.
The Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex continues to close the population gap with Chicagoland as it grew to more than eight million inhabitants this year, according to a new study released by the Texas Demographic Center.
Between 2020 and the beginning of 2023, DFW saw a population increase of more than 423,000, with more than 100,000 coming in the second half of 2022. Overall, it's a 5.5 percent increase.
The Texas Demographic Center is a distributor of U.S. Census Bureau information for Texas. It is part of the Census Bureau’s State Data Center program, which is a partnership to make data available locally.
The DFW county with the most raw growth was Collin County with more than 125,000 new residents. Other notable raw growth counties include Denton with 89,000, Wise with 75,000, and Tarrant with 56,000. Kaufman County led the way in percentage growth with a 22 percent increase; Parker followed with 15.5 percent, Rockwall with 14.3 percent, and all other counties sitting between 9 and 11 percent, with the exception of Dallas County and Tarrant County.
Fort Worth is still the fastest-growing city in Texas with around 48,500 people added between the 2020 census and January 2023. Other notable cases of raw growth include McKinney with over 22,000 new residents and Lewisville with over 24,000.
Arlington crossed the 400,000 resident mark, while McKinney and Grand Prairie both crossed the 200,000 mark.
Dallas was stagnant at around 1.3 million residents with only 0.4 percent population growth. Most of the other big cities in the Metroplex saw between 1 and 6 percent growth, with notable exceptions in Denton at 8.4 percent growth, Frisco at 9.1 percent, McKinney at 11.5 percent, and Lewisville at 22.1 percent.
Several of the smaller areas of the Metroplex doubled or nearly doubled in size. Northlake saw 101.2 percent growth, Haslet had 105.4 percent, and Celina had 97.2 percent. Several other areas saw population growth north of 50 percent, such as Anna, Aubrey, Melissa, Princeton, Royse City, and Van Alstyne.
Of note, Highland Park and University Park both experienced population loss of under 3 percent.
While no Metropolitan Statistical Area in Texas added more people than DFW, the Austin area grew the most by percentage change with a growth rate of 7.2 percent between the 2020 census and the beginning of 2023.
Other rapid growth areas between 4 and 7 percent include Houston, San Antonio-New Braunfels, College Station-Bryan, Killeen-Temple, Odessa, Tyler, and Sherman-Denison.
A few areas did decrease in size, with Victoria losing 0.1 percent of its population between the 2020 census and January 2023, Beaumont-Port Arthur losing 0.5 percent, Corpus Christi losing 0.7 percent, San Angelo losing 1.0 percent, and Texarkana losing 1.5 percent.
The places that have struggled the most with percentage population decline include Balmorhea with a 10.0 percent loss, Dilley with 27.1 percent, New Boston with 16.4 percent, Quintana with 15.4 percent, and Toyah with 11.5 percent.
Overall Texas grew 4.0 percent, adding over 1.1 million between the 2020 census and January 2023 and about 253,000 between July 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022.
Counties with the highest raw population growth include Harris County with 114,000, Williamson with 74,000, Montgomery with 70,000, and Fort Bend with 56,000. Counties with significant percentage growth include Comal County at 17.4 percent and Hays with 16.0 percent.
Counties with the most raw population regression include Jefferson with a loss of nearly 4,000, Nueces with a loss of around 3,500, and Potter with a loss of around 2,600. Counties with the largest percentage population loss include Reagan, which lost with 8.5 percent, Terrell, which lost 9.1 percent, Borden, which lost 12.8 percent, and Loving, which lost 18.8 percent.
Cities in Texas with the most raw growth between the 2020 census and January 2023 include San Antonio with nearly 42,000 new residents, Houston with just over 21,000, Fulshear with nearly 23,000, and Georgetown with just over 22,000.
The cities with the most percentage growth include Caddo Mills with 174.9 percent, Fulshear with 134.7 percent, Godley with 134.2 percent, Jarrell with 131.0 percent, Josephine with 153.2 percent, Liberty Hill with 194.1 percent, and Weston with 178.1 percent.
Texas had the most raw population growth of any state between 2020 and 2022, with 470,000 moving to the Lone Star State. For that period, Texas gained 1,290 new residents per day.
However, 152 out of 254 Texas counties experienced a natural decline between 2020 and 2022 where deaths outpaced births.
Published by SETH MOREHEAD
Published on NOV 30, 2023
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