Texas Boom: GOP-Led State Brags America’s 5 Fastest-Growing Cities as People Flee Blue States

A demographic trend favoring warmer, redder states continued between 2024 and 2025.

In fact, the largest of the red states led the way.

According to a Thursday news release from the U.S. Census Bureau, Texas boasted the five fastest-growing cities in the United States in 2024-2025.

Using data on percentage growth between July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2025, the bureau ranked cities and towns with populations of 20,000 or more.

Celina, Texas, with a total 2025 population of 64,427, ranked first with an increase of 24.9 percent. Four other Texas cities followed: Fulshear (21 percent), Princeton (18.1 percent), Melissa (14.5 percent), and Anna (10.2 percent). Of those five, only Fulshear, a suburb of Houston, is located outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

Texas also featured three more fast-growing cities in the top 15: Forney, Hutto, and Greeneville.

Of course, larger cities struggle to keep pace with smaller ones when it