{"id":228453,"date":"2026-03-31T11:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228453\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:29:06","slug":"this-north-texas-suburb-led-the-country-in-population-growth-census-bureau-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228453\/","title":{"rendered":"This North Texas suburb led the country in population growth, Census Bureau says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collin County added<\/a> nearly 43,000 people between 2024 and 2025, the second most of any county in America, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, while most counties across the country saw population growth slow and Dallas County shrunk.<\/p>\n

Between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, the bureau estimates Collin County grew<\/a> to nearly 1.3 million residents. Houston\u2019s Harris County took the top spot for numeric growth of any county in the U.S. in that time period, adding nearly 48,700 people. Harris is also the country’s third-most populous county with an estimated 5 million residents.<\/p>\n

Most counties that grew between 2023 and 2024<\/a> saw their growth slow or reverse in 2025, and in many cases, counties already in decline saw population losses accelerate, the bureau found.<\/p>\n

Several factors are at play in changing populations, said J.H. Cullum Clark, director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative. Birth rates overall are down, immigration policy is changing drastically in the U.S. and people are generally moving less. But demand to live in Collin County<\/a> is still very strong.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCollin County has been just consistently one of the biggest destinations for net moves in the United States for many, many years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

County Commissioner Darrell Hale said he\u2019s not surprised to see Collin\u2019s ranking<\/a>, with traffic, housing demand, court cases and jail populations \u201con a continuous path up\u201d in the county. That means officials have to focus on providing core services, he said, to ensure water, emergency services, police, fire rescue, courts and jails can keep up with growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe definitely have to focus on the must-haves versus the nice-to-haves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As production, development and industry grow north, Hale believes the region will see \u201ca continuing northern pattern<\/a>\u201d of growth. He said he thinks the state will have to invest more in mobility, roads and traffic management to keep up.<\/p>\n

Dallas County, still ranked as the country\u2019s eighth-most populous, ranked No. 9 in the country for numeric population decline, losing more than 2,600 people between 2024 and 2025. The county \u201chas a real problem,\u201d Clark said, with population declines spelling economic risks. It could end up hurting Collin County, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Dallas County becomes progressively a less and less attractive place to be, the negatives could spill over,\u201d he said. \u201cIt’s very tough, historically, to be a suburban place adjacent to a core urban place that is in decline.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among some of the country\u2019s largest metro hubs, the fastest-growing areas tended to be on the outer edges, a pattern especially pronounced in Texas, according to the census bureau.<\/p>\n

Even as Dallas County lost population, the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area<\/a> ranked No. 2 in the nation for numeric population growth from 2024 to 2025, adding more than 123,000 people, second only to the Houston area, the census bureau estimated.<\/p>\n

After Collin County, the county that added the next most residents was Phoenix\u2019s Maricopa County in Arizona, according to the census bureau, followed by Montgomery County north of Houston. Also representing Texas<\/a> in the top 10 counties adding the most population were Fort Bend County southwest of Houston and Williamson County north of Austin.<\/p>\n

Kaufman County also saw a major jump, adding more than 11,000 people for a growth rate of nearly 6%, the country\u2019s third-highest.<\/p>\n

Email tips on all things Collin County to lilly.kersh@dallasnews.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collin County added nearly 43,000 people between 2024 and 2025, the second most of any county in America,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[732,27,29,28,88338,88339],"class_list":{"0":"post-228453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-headlines","11":"tag-texas-news","12":"tag-tp-collin-county","13":"tag-tp-population"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228453","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=228453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}