Harris County was as popular as any in Houston for out-of-state residents moving to Texas in 2018.
According to the latest report from Texas Realtors, which studies migration patterns based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau and U-Haul, Harris County registered a net gain of nearly 81,000 residents in 2018, including the largest influx from areas neighboring the state.
In all, the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area recorded a state-leading 200,966 new out-of-state residents in 2018, followed by the wider Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land area with 176,110 people in 2018.
From 2017 to 2018, the net gain of out-of-state residents in Texas nearly doubled to 101,805 residents. With an increase of 36.4 percent year-over-year, the highest number of people relocating to the state matriculated from California, followed in order by Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New York.
More than 201,000 people in all moved to Texas from out of the state in 2018.
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