Texas shows continued economic, population growth

17 Jun 2024


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The Comptroller鈥檚 data analysts recently updated our, showing a continued trend of strong economic and population growth. Some of these data surprised us, while other results confirmed what we鈥檝e been hearing. Here are the top 10 stats that stood out to our researchers:

1. The saying, 鈥淚 wasn鈥檛 born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could,鈥 is truer than you might think.

Texas鈥 population rose nearly 4 million between 2012 and 2022, by far the most of any state and surpassing second-place Florida by 1 million. Texas鈥 15.1 percent increase in population during this period was more than double the U.S. growth of 6.2 percent. Eleven of Texas鈥 12 economic regions experienced net population growth, led by the Capital (30.9 percent), Metroplex (19.3 percent), Gulf Coast (18.4 percent), Alamo (16.8 percent) and Central Texas (13.2 percent) regions.