Locator: 48671TEXAS.
From The WSJ yesterday, link here.
Top three metro-areas, ranked by growth raw numbers:
By percentage, 2023 - 2024, July to July -- something tells me the growth rate in DFW has increased since then::
- NYC: 213,400 / 19.94 million = 1.06%
- Houston: 198,171 / 7.80 million = 2.5%
- DFW: 177,922 / 8.34 million = 2.1%
Blue: This also means, the state of Texas will swing "blue" by 2032, if not by 2028.
- and it doesn't matter if the new "blue" reps stay "true to Texas," the fact remains that at the Federal level, the US Congress and US Senate will have an easier time going forward to control by the Democrats.
From the link:
FRISCO, Texas — The growth north of Dallas has been so dizzying that people talk about it as if it were a storm, or some other force of nature.
That’s how Heather Cowan describes it. She came to the area in 1995 to raise a family after graduating from college in South Dakota. Six months ago, she and her husband moved farther north to the quiet of Gunter, 50 miles from Dallas, “to get ahead of the curve,” as she put it. Even in rural Gunter, though, Cowan said she was starting to “feel” the growth.
She was right: The next day, Centurion American Development Group announced it had closed on a thousand-acre parcel in Gunter that would form part of a new development, Platinum Ranch, with 4,200 homes.
The corridor north of Dallas is capping a decade as one of America’s fastest-growing regions, pulling in droves of newcomers from California to India and turning them into newly minted Texans. The companies are coming, too. Among them are Toyota, Amazon Web Services, State Farm and others.
Where cattle once outnumbered people, new shopping malls, housing developments and office towers now reign, and a region that was once overwhelmingly white and country is now increasingly South Asian and techie.
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Sprawling
What does this mean for investors as folks keep moving farther north, eventually moving to the state line along Oklahoma? We'll get to that later. I think it's quite interesting. Stay tuned.
