{"id":242034,"date":"2026-04-09T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242034\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:50:07","slug":"collin-county-growth-surge-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242034\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin County growth surge continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas is home to five of the nation\u2019s fastest-growing counties by population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, with Collin County ranked No. 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From July of 2024 to July 2025, Collin County grew by 3.4%, adding 42,966 people for a total just under 1.3 million, the Census Bureau said in Vintage 2025 population estimates released Thursday, March 26.<\/p>\n<p>Only Houston\u2019s Harris County added more people, 48,695 or 1% of the total, over that one-year period.<\/p>\n<p>Other Texas counties on the fastest numeric growth list were two others in the Houston area \u2014 Montgomery County at No. 4 and Fort Bend County at No. 8 \u2014 and Williamson County north of Austin at ninth.<\/p>\n<p>When it came to percentage of growth, Walker and Kaufman counties were tied for second at 5.7%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story,  stay informed and support your local community newspaper, subscribe to<a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Princeton-Herald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> The Princeton Herald.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas is home to five of the nation\u2019s fastest-growing counties by population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-242034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242034","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=242034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}