Mega Metro Magnets

Column Published in syndication April 22, 2026

People 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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