

counties contributing the most net domestic migration to each of Texas’ five most populous counties from 2011 through 2015. The Census Bureau’s county-level statistics indicate that migration among states is largely a metropolitan affair. Census Bureau, “Cumulative Estimates of the Components of Resident Population Change for the United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico: Apto July 1, 2016” It also includes a “residual” amount that cannot be attributed to any specific demographic component.

Notes: The total population change estimate in this exhibit reflects the Census Bureau’s use of its “estimates base” for 2010 rather than the actual, slightly different, decennial count. In the same period, for instance, net migration accounted for just 22 percent of California’s population increase, and all those gains represented international immigration the state’s domestic migration turned negative, with a net loss of more than 383,000 residents to other states.Įxhibit 2: Components of Population change in Texas, Apto July 1, 2016 “Natural increase,” the population change due to in-state births less in-state deaths, represented 49 percent of the state’s net growth. states - represented about 32 percent of the total increase, with net international immigration accounting for 19 percent. Net domestic migration - arrivals to and from other U.S. Of Texas’ total population growth between 20, migration accounted for almost exactly half ( Exhibit 2).

The population of any region is determined by its births, deaths and migration to and from the area. Sources: Texas State Library and Archives Commission and U.S. Note: 1900-2010 figures represent decennial Census counts others are Census estimates as of July 1 of each year.
