Step aside California. Texas is now the state with the biggest growth in population.People like no state income tax.
Booming cities in the Lone Star state dominated the latest population estimates for cities as of July, 1, 2006, released by the census today. Six Texas cities were in the top 25 in the U.S, and three, including Houston, were in the top 10, with San Antonio the seventh-largest and Dallas the ninth.
Phoenix shouldered past Philadelphia to become the nation's fifth-largest city, but, not to worry, Houston's perch at No. 4 remains secure.
Nineteen Texas cities, or nearly 20 percent, were among the top 100 fastest-growing cities with populations of at least 100,000 between 2000 and July 1, 2006. McKinney, north of Dallas, ranked No. 1 on that list, nearly doubling its population.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Texas tops nation's population growth
The Houston Chronicle reports:
