U.S. Census Bureau said last week Texas’ population surpassed 31 million people. Texas added 562,941 residents between July 2023 and July 2024 to bring the state’s population to 31,290,831. A major factor of that growth was net international migration. Texas added 319,569 new residents from abroad – most since the pandemic and third after Florida and California. Texas led the nation in domestic migration with 85,267 people from other states.
U.S. added 3.3 million residents in the last year – 2.8 million from other counties.
Lloyd Potter, state demographer, told Texas Tribune with domestic migration slowing, “Texas likely will rely on international migration to meet its labor needs as the state’s economy booms… With a growing economy, we have a growing demand for labor. And if we’re seeing a decline in domestic migration, that labor probably is going to need to come from immigrants.”