Population report
This is how many new Texas residents came from other countries in 2023
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The biggest source of new residents to Texas and Florida, the two U.S. states with the largest number of new residents last year, was other countries.
Of the almost 612,000 Texas residents who had lived elsewhere in the previous year, 43 percent were from another country, according to migration data released Thursday, October 17 by the U.S. Census Bureau. Texas has 30.5 million residents.
And Florida is slightly ahead of Texas. A little over 45 percent of the almost 634,000 residents in Florida who said that they had lived in a different state or abroad the previous year came from a foreign country.
Florida, with 23 million residents, had more people who said they had lived in a different place the previous year than any other state.
The migration figures don't show from which countries the new residents arrived.
Priscila Coronado moved last year to Miami from Guatemala, looking for a better future.
“I am happy. My dream is to study, learn English and graduate with a nursing degree,” Coronado says. “There is no crime here, and that is an achievement."
Among U.S. states, New York was the top producer of new Floridians, and more recently minted Texans had lived in California the year before than any other state.
But Texas and Florida didn't just gain residents; some also moved out. California had the most ex-Texans last year, and Georgia gained the most former Floridians.
