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In 2025, there were 31.7 million people living in Texas. That makes Texas the second-most populous state, home to 9.3% of people living in the US.

31.7M

population of Texas (2025)

9.3%

Texas share of the US population (2025)
The population of Texas was about 10.4 times higher than it was in 1900. Between 2024 and 2025, the population of Texas grew by about 391,200 people.

About 31.7 million people lived in Texas in 2025. That's about 10.4 times more than in 1900.

Annual population estimates

What are Texas's age demographics?

About 4.71 million Texas residents were aged 65 and older in 2025. That represents 14.9% of the state’s population compared with 19% in the US overall.
Another 7.6 million Texas residents, or 24.1% of the state’s population, were aged under 18. For comparison, children account for 21.1% of the US population.

A lower share of Texas's population is 65 and older than the US overall.

Population share by age group (2025)

What are Texas's racial and ethnic demographics?

A state’s population may have racial and ethnic differences compared with the US overall. These figures reflect how people identified their race alone (not in combination with other races), and separate Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, following Census Bureau reporting standards.
Hispanic residents make up 40.9% of Texas’s population, higher than the national share of 20.5%.
In contrast, Texas’s non-Hispanic white population accounted for 37.3%, below the 56.1% share nationwide. The non-Hispanic two or more races population makes up 2.7% of the state, compared with 3.6% nationally.

A higher share of Texas's population is Hispanic than the US overall.

Population share by race and ethnicity (2025)

What are Texas's most populous counties?

In 2025, seven out of 254 counties accounted for over half of Texas’s population:
  • Harris County, 5.05 million (15.9% of the population)
  • Dallas County, 2.66 million (8.4%)
  • Tarrant County, 2.25 million (7.1%)
  • Bexar County, 2.16 million (6.8%)
  • Travis County, 1.39 million (4.4%)
  • Collin County, 1.3 million (4.1%)
  • Denton County, 1.07 million (3.4%)

In 2025, Harris County was the most populous county in Texas.

Population estimates

What are Texas's most populous cities?

The largest city in Texas is Houston with about 2.4 million residents in 2025.

Cities and county equivalents ranked by population

Cities and county equivalents ranked by population
1.

Houston 

2,397,315
2.

San Antonio

1,548,422
3.

Dallas 

1,329,491
4.

Fort Worth

1,028,117
5.

Austin 

1,002,632
6.

El Paso

683,012
7.

Arlington 

402,134
8.

Corpus Christi

317,247
9.

Plano 

293,028
10.

Lubbock 

273,071

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Methodology

USAFacts standardizes data, in areas such as time and demographics, to make it easier to understand and compare.

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