#giveBTN{display: none;} Ten Texas counties (Harris, Tarrant, Bexar, Collin, Denton, Fort Bend, Travis, Williamson, Montgomery, and Dallas) were also top gainers nationally during this period. Your gift helps pay for everything you find ontexasstandard.organdKUT.org. A lock ( Texas Demographic Center Texas Demographic Center released its Vintage 2022 projections of the states total population by age and sex and the total population of the Counties in Texas for 2020-2060. The Houston areas population would reach 8,866,309 in 2030. .page-body__content .align-right {padding: 0 0 1rem 1rem;} However, he warns that the continuing rise in the Triangles housing costs could dampen the megaregions economic and population growth. .article .article__body figure.align-left {margin: 0 30px 20px 0;} From 2000 to 2022, the state gained 9,085,073 residents, more than any other state and almost 3 million more than Florida, the next largest-gaining state. Potter says its safe to assume that job growth and population growth in the megaregion will churn ahead for the foreseeable future., While the global influences on oil prices may continue to wreak havoc with the predictability of the petroleum industry, he says, Texas economy is diverse enough and strong enough to withstand fluctuations in this sector and continue to grow, albeit at a rate that is influenced by the price of oil.. Now that infection rates are down, and so on, I think youre going to see that a lot of workplaces will continue to have either remote work or hybrid kinds of working conditions, which wasnt really the case at all before the pandemic occurred, or it was really pretty limited. Kristie Wilder is a demographer in the Census Bureaus Population Estimates Branch. Because of concerns about the quality of 2020 data for college dorms and other group quarters, the Census Bureau added an option for governments to challenge those counts, too. The non-Hispanic White population also was overcounted in 2020, as it was in 2010. Assume the migration rates half of those between 2010-2020. Nickname: The Lone Star State. Austin, on the other hand, continues to boom, growing by 46.93 percent and adding roughly 836,000 people given average birth, death and migration rates. They are not competitors, no matter what Dallas and Fort Worth think of each other and no matter what Dallas and Houston think of each other, Gilmer says. In 2020, Denton, TX had a population of 140k people with a median age of 29.5 and a median household income of $62,542. The historic pattern of high undercount rates also continued in 2020 for the Black population, American Indians and Alaska Natives on reservations, and people who identified as Some other race, the vast majority of whom are Hispanic.