According to the 2021 Texas Relocation Report released by Texas Realtors, more than 500,000 people moved to Texas in 2019 — 537,000-582,000 new residents, to be sort of exact.
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But while many people are declaring Texas their new home, quite a few already here are making the move elsewhere. Texas also ranked second in terms of residents moving out of state in 2019, with approximately 435,000-471,000 people leaving bluebonnets and longhorns behind.
When all the math is said and done, that's a net gain of approximately 100,000 new Texas residents for the year.
Oh boy.
If voting with their feet is your metric, then over the last decade, California wins.
But... Ward? People go lots of places for lots of reasons. It doesn't make the numbers I gave you wrong. Not at all.
46th in the nation in child welfare.
You can promote their corporations and their new residents, but it doesn't seem to have made much of a dent in their poverty for seniors, either.