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. Nationally, the population grew by less than half a percentage point, bringing the total U.S. population to 341.8 million. That’s a stark drop off from Texas’ peak years of poaching residents from competing states; in 2022, Texas added 222,154 residents via net domestic migration. Texas came in fourth in terms of the pace of population growth in 2025, down from the top spot the previous year. There’s a potential bright spot in slower growth, Potter said local officials may now have more breathing room to catch up on infrastructure needs brought on by the state’s population boom.