{"id":100390,"date":"2025-12-25T05:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/100390\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:53:08","slug":"county-population-nearing-1-3-million-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/100390\/","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.\u00a0<\/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>The program found Princeton added 21,586 people from 2020 to 2025, for a 126.8% increase over the five-year period resulting in an estimated total of 38,613 in January of this year. City officials have said the number was at least 41,000.<\/p>\n<p>The January estimate for Farmersville\u2019s population was 4,506 residents, with 894 new residents from 2020-2025 and a 24.8% growth rate.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story, stay informed and support local journalism, subscribe to your community newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Princeton-Herald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Princeton Herald t<\/a>oday!<\/p>\n<p>By Bob Wieland | <a href=\"https:\/\/princetonherald.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"e0829789858c818e84a083938d858489819485988193ce838f8d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/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":100391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-100390","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\/100390","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=100390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}