Welcome to the Texas Land Trends website. This project was developed to provide critical insight for decision-makers on the role of economics, demographics, landuses and landuse trends across Texas.

From 1990 to 2000, Texas’ population swelled by 3.9 million people, ranking Texas 8th in the US for percent population gain (22.8%); and only California had a greater net gain in population. Driving this trend was the fact that 13 of the top 100 fastest growing counties in the US were in Texas.

By the year 2000, although representing just less than 5% of the states’ total land area, those 13 counties held 61% of the state’s population; and were responsible for 71% of the state’s record increase of almost 4 million new Texans. By contrast, about 26% of Texas’ 254 counties actually lost population – a total net loss of 35,400 in those counties.

This website will take you on an interactive journey across Texas over the past ten years. You can explore trend data and analysis across natural and political boundaries.

If you'd like to begin exploring on your own, access the Data Miner area and choose a starting point.

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