📌 Updates You May Have Missed: Population Estimates and More

After some of the nation's most populous counties experienced significant outmigration and population declines in 2021, overall patterns of population growth and decline are moving towards pre-pandemic rates for the nation’s 3,144 counties according to the Census Bureau’s Vintage 2022 estimates of population and components of change released last week. All 10 of the top fastest-growing counties were in the South or West.

En Español: 

• 🌐 Repunta el crecimiento en los mayores condados del país en el 2022
• 🌎 Cambio porcentual en la población de condados: Del 1 de julio de 2021 al 1 de julio de 2022

More Resources:

• 📰 For the Media: Press Kit
• 📊 For Data Users: Population and Housing Unit Estimates
• 🌎 Map: Percent Change in County Population: July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2022

Texas Population Passes the 30-Million Mark in 2022

Texas is now one of only two U.S. states with a population of 30 million or more: the nation’s second-most-populous state reached a population milestone by passing the 30-million threshold.

Texas’s population in 2022 was 30,029,572, second only to California (39,029,342), not surprising given its consistent place in recent years among the nation’s fastest-growing, largest-gaining states.

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Two Years Into Pandemic, Domestic Migration Trends Shifted

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the U.S. population in many ways, including births, deaths and international migration. One of its more intriguing impacts was on domestic migration patterns.

Some longstanding trends accelerated, such as outmigration from large urban areas in the Northeast, while other trends reversed, resulting in some small rural counties gaining rather than losing population.

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