TEXAS — New data from the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday showed that Texas led the country in population growth in 2025.
Overall growth, however, slowed significantly as fewer people overall moved to the U.S. due to the Trump administration’s immigration policies.The nation experienced a 0.5% growth rate from 2025 and was a sharp drop from 2024’s 1% growth rate.
Nearly 68,000 people moved to Texas from abroad. That’s down from the previous year.
Texas added a total of around 391,000 people, higher than any other state.
However, this is the lowest growth rate for Texas since 2021.
The state’s population now sits at 31.7 million.
Unlike the once-a-decade census, which determines how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state gets, as well as the distribution of $2.8 trillion in annual government funding, the population estimates are calculated from government records and internal Census Bureau data.
The release of the 2025 population estimates was delayed by the federal government shutdown last fall and comes at a challenging time for the Census Bureau and other U.S. statistical agencies. The bureau, which is the largest statistical agency in the U.S., lost about 15% of its workforce last year due to buyouts and layoffs that were part of cost-cutting efforts by the White House and its Department of Government Efficiency.