{"id":100367,"date":"2025-12-25T05:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/100367\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:17:06","slug":"county-population-nearing-1-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/100367\/","title":{"rendered":"County population nearing 1.3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Collin County cities doubled in population over the past five years while the county grew overall by 19.6% from 2020 to 2025, according to the latest figures from the Texas Population Estimates Program.<\/p>\n<p>The program, run by the Texas Demographic Center, estimated the county\u2019s January 2025 population at 1,272,999, with 184,657 new residents in the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the November estimates, Wylie grew by 9.1% over the past five years, with 5,223 new residents for a January 2025 population of 62,749.<\/p>\n<p>Sachse\u2019s growth rate was estimated at 7.6% from 2020 to 2025, adding 2,071 people for a January total of 29,174.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story see the December 25, 2025 print or digital edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/publisher.etype.services\/Sachse-News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Sachse News. Subscribe<\/a> today and support local journalism in your community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Collin County cities doubled in population over the past five years while the county grew overall by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-100367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}