DALLAS — Texas’ population growth slowed significantly last year amid a nationwide slowdown in the number of newcomers moving to the United States, but still topped the rest of the country for adding new residents, new U.S. Census Bureau data show.
Texas added 391,243 residents in 2025, the most of any state, according to census figures released Tuesday — bringing the state’s population to 31.7 million. But the Lone Star State grew by 1.2%, its slowest clip since 2021, after years of red-hot growth following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Part of that slowdown comes from a steep drop-off in the number of immigrants moving to Texas, driven in part by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The state added 167,475 newcomers from abroad in 2025. That’s a 48% decline from the previous year, when 319,569 immigrants, documented and undocumented, moved to Texas. The drop was not as staggering as the national decrease.
