Population Growth Of Texas

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Texas population has undergone changes over the past decades, with people coming from different states and other countries. Texas, continues to top the nation in population growth. The great state of Texas, has welcome 432,957 new people between 2015 and 2016. Between 2000 and 2010 Texas at an average rate of about 2 percent a year. Steve Murdock, a former head of the census and now director of Rice University's Hobby Center for the study of Texas, said "The state has topped population growth lists since about the turn of the millennium—and he doesn’t expect that to change anytime soon.

Why overall, I think this will be a good thing for Texas. As our population grows this will lure corporates to relocated from other states. This will bring

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