Southwest USA
Southwest USA: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
zone · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Southwest USA at a glance
Rolled up from the 108 regions inside Southwest USA on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Who leads the states inside
From each one's researched profile.
Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey — summed from the province/state summaries; income, rent and rates are population-weighted means of their medians, not national medians.
- Spanish9,893,859 · 23%
- Other Indo-European languages558,817 · 1.3%
- Other and unspecified languages451,371 · 1%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages364,009 · 0.8%
- Vietnamese283,469 · 0.7%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)235,477 · 0.5%
- Arabic143,812 · 0.3%
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)124,905 · 0.3%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun115,858 · 0.3%
- German or other West Germanic languages112,950 · 0.3%
- Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages92,390 · 0.2%
- Korean79,077 · 0.2%
Provinces and territories
One row per census summary, largest first.
| Name | Population | Median household income | Median rent | Immigrants | Unemployment | Businesses on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 29,640,343 | $76,292 | $1,339 | 17.2% | 5.1% | 808,377 |
| Arizona | 7,268,175 | $76,872 | $1,431 | 12.9% | 5.1% | 209,200 |
| Oklahoma | 3,995,260 | $63,603 | $980 | 6.3% | 4.8% | 87,686 |
| New Mexico | 2,114,768 | $62,125 | $1,021 | 9.2% | 5.9% | 76,343 |
Largest places in Southwest USA
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Houston, Texas full2,300,000
- 2.Phoenix, Arizona full1,608,139
- 3.San Antonio, Texas full1,430,000
- 4.Dallas, Texas full1,304,379
- 5.Austin, Texas full961,855
- 6.Fort Worth, Texas full918,915
- 7.Oklahoma City (OKC), OK full681,054
- 8.El Paso, Texas full678,815
- 9.Albuquerque, New Mexico full562,488
- 10.Tucson, Arizona full542,629
- 11.Mesa, Arizona full504,258
- 12.Tulsa, Oklahoma full413,066
- 13.Arlington, Texas full394,266
- 14.Corpus Christi, Texas full317,247
- 15.Plano, Texas full285,494
Inside Southwest USA
4 regions have Southwest USA as their parent.
- Arizona state
- New Mexico state
- Oklahoma state
- Texas state
Companies based in Southwest USA
1,305 companies in the Research Upon directory have their headquarters somewhere in Southwest USA. Search them by name or industry.
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Southwest USA are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.