Texas led the nation in population growth from July 2023 to July 2024, gaining 562,941 residents, new Census data shows. This surge was fueled largely by international migration and domestic moves into the state.
📊 U.S. Population Growth Hits Fastest Rate Since 2001 — Over 340M Residents 🇺🇸📈
🔹 2024 Growth: +3.3M residents (+1% growth).
🔹 Immigration Impact: 2.8M new arrivals, accounting for 84% of growth. 🌍✈️
🔹 Top Gainers: Texas (+563K) & Florida (+467K) lead the way. 🌟
🔹… pic.twitter.com/wY7SE3XXMv— BitLogicX (@bytecoderman) December 23, 2024
While California remains the most populous state with 39,431,263 residents, Texas is catching up, with a total population now at 31,290,831. Florida, with 23,372,215 residents, ranks third.
Here in our little rural SE Texas town the school population in 2021-2022 was just over 2k students. Now it’s over 11k with 85% of that being Hispanic students. Immigration overload is overwhelming resources. We can thank Colony Ridge for that. And yes we’re pissed.
— Belinda Kalas (@KalasBelinda) December 29, 2024
International migration significantly boosted Texas, which added 319,569 residents from abroad, placing it behind Florida (411,322) and California (361,057) in this category. The state also led the nation in domestic migration, welcoming 85,267 new residents from within the US.
We should absolutely not be flooded with Indians at all, under any circumstance.
The population should grow, but through much higher birth rates and larger families. Not through more mass immigration.
These same open-borders advocates WANT birth rates in the West to be low.
— Red Texas (@Red_Texas_22) December 27, 2024
In contrast, California, New York and Illinois saw steep losses in domestic migration. California alone experienced a net loss of 239,575 residents, a stark reflection of ongoing population shifts.
While Texas ranked third in percentage growth at 1.8%, it trailed behind Washington, D.C., at 2.2%, and Florida at 2%. Vermont, Mississippi and West Virginia were the only states to lose residents, with Vermont’s and Mississippi’s losses linked to natural decreases and negative domestic migration.
Births exceeded deaths in Texas by the widest margin of any state, adding 158,753 people. California and New York also saw natural increases, though their numbers were significantly lower.
Several Central Texas cities, including New Braunfels, Georgetown and Atascocita, were among the fastest-growing communities in the country, according to a separate Smart Asset analysis.
