Mega Metro Magnets
Column Published in syndication April 22, 2026People continue to come to Texas, and the state's largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) are where most of them are landing (almost 88% in the top four alone). I wrote about Texas population growth in a prior column when the state data was released, and the gist is that while the pace of expansion slowed markedly due to reduced domestic and international in-migration, the increase was far larger than any other state at more than 391,240 - about 1,072 new Texans every day. The state's 1.25% rate of increase was substantially above the national pace of 0.52%.
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Metro Musings
Column Published in syndication July 30, 2025Although uncertainty has increased markedly since the last forecast, Texas and its metropolitan areas are projected to see notable growth through 2029. The rate of increase is again expected to outpace that of the US, and many of Texas' most populated areas will expand even faster than the state as a whole. Performance may be uneven and much of it backloaded into later years of the five-year horizon (and confidence intervals are wider than normal), but overall expansion is expected.
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