Texas
Texas: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · population 31,700,000 (registry) · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Texas at a glance
Rolled up from the 51 regions inside Texas on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Population29,640,343
census
Places inside51
38 with a full /local page
Businesses on file750,493
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered910
in the company directory
Who represents them25
places with a /politics page
Property & employers25 · 0
/property and /employers records
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Who leads Texas, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
Leadership
Economy & households
- Population
- 31,709,821 persons (Census Bureau Vintage 2025 resident population estimate, July 1) (2025) ↗
- GDP
- 2,932,343.6 USD millions, nominal (BEA state GDP) (2025) ↗
- Unemployment
- 4.4 % seasonally adjusted (BLS LAUS) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 85,060 USD, current dollars (Census CPS ASEC) (2025) ↗
- Home ownership
- 63.6 % (Census CPS/HVS homeownership rate) (2025) ↗
- Personal income per person
- 73,156 USD (BEA per capita personal income) (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 60,000 USD per person with a credit score, inflation-adjusted (NY Fed Consumer Credit Panel/Equifax via USAFacts); per person, NOT per household (2025) ↗
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Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
| City / metro | Price | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos MSA ↗ | 420,000 USD | median sale (-1.2% y/y) | 2026-Q3 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA ↗ | 385,535 USD | median sale (-1.1% y/y) | 2026-Q3 |
| Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands MSA ↗ | 330,990 USD | median sale (-1.2% y/y) | 2026-Q3 |
| San Antonio-New Braunfels MSA ↗ | 305,000 USD | median sale (-1.0% y/y) | 2026-Q3 |
| El Paso MSA ↗ | 280,000 USD | median sale (+4.7% y/y) | 2026-Q3 |
| McAllen-Edinburg-Mission MSA ↗ | 245,000 USD | median sale (0.0% y/y) | 2026-Q3 |
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Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
| Language | Share | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| English only ↗ | 64.9% | most often at home — ACS share of population speaking only English at home | 2020 |
| Language other than English ↗ | 35.1% | most often at home — ACS share speaking a language other than English at home | 2020 |
| Spanish ↗ | 28.8% | most often at home — ACS | 2020 |
| None (no official language) ↗ | official status | 2026 |
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Largest companies in Texas
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| McKesson (Irving) ↗ | revenue | 359,051 USD millions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 8) | 2026 |
| Exxon Mobil (Spring) ↗ | revenue | 332,238 USD millions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 9) | 2026 |
| Chevron (Houston) ↗ | revenue | 189,031 USD millions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 21) | 2026 |
| Phillips 66 (Houston) ↗ | revenue | 136,560 USD millions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 29) | 2026 |
| AT&T (Dallas) ↗ | revenue | 125,648 USD millions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 35) | 2026 |
| Valero Energy (San Antonio) ↗ | revenue | 115,939 USD millions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 40) | 2026 |
| Dell Technologies (Round Rock) ↗ | revenue | 113,538 USD millions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 41) | 2026 |
| Tesla (Austin) ↗ | revenue | 94,827 USD millions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 43) | 2026 |
| Energy Transfer (Dallas) ↗ | revenue | 85,536 USD millions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 53) | 2026 |
| Sysco (Houston) ↗ | revenue | 81,370 USD millions (Fortune 500 2026, rank 55) | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
- 2026-11Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeated three-term Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Nov 3, 2026 (5,230,929 votes, 52.82%, to 4,524,955, 45.67%; preliminary until certified). She takes office in January 2027 as the first Democratic governor since Ann Richards left office in 1995 and the first Latina governor of Texas. ↗
- 2026-11Democrat Vikki Goodwin defeated Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Nov 3, 2026 (5,083,719 votes, 51.7%, to 4,485,059, 45.6%; preliminary). She will be the first woman to serve as lieutenant governor of Texas. ↗
- 2026-06Texas is headquarters to 57 Fortune 500 companies on the 2026 list, the most of any state; California has 56. ↗
- 2026-10The statewide median home sale price was $333,628 in Q3 2026, down 0.4% year over year. Active listings rose 2.8%, and months of inventory went from 5.4 to 5.5. ↗
- 2026-11Texas has no official language. ↗
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Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
Median household income$76,292
Median rent$1,339/mo
Immigrants17.2%
Renters37.4%
Aged 65+13.2%
Unemployment5.1%
Low income13.8%
Speak a language other than English32.6%
Languages spoken at home (other than English)
- Spanish7,782,802 · 26.3%
- Other Indo-European languages459,573 · 1.6%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages284,376 · 1%
- Vietnamese238,917 · 0.8%
- Other and unspecified languages198,794 · 0.7%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)188,675 · 0.6%
- Arabic114,705 · 0.4%
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)92,275 · 0.3%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun90,862 · 0.3%
- German or other West Germanic languages76,530 · 0.3%
- Korean67,152 · 0.2%
- Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages65,700 · 0.2%
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Largest places in Texas
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Houston, Texas full2,300,000
- 2.San Antonio, Texas full1,430,000
- 3.Dallas, Texas full1,304,379
- 4.Austin, Texas full961,855
- 5.Fort Worth, Texas full918,915
- 6.El Paso, Texas full678,815
- 7.Arlington, Texas full394,266
- 8.Corpus Christi, Texas full317,247
- 9.Plano, Texas full285,494
- 10.Lubbock, Texas full257,141
- 11.Irving, Texas full256,684
- 12.Laredo, Texas full255,205
- 13.Garland, Texas full246,018
- 14.Amarillo, Texas full200,945
- 15.Brownsville, Texas full186,738
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Inside Texas
45 regions have Texas as their parent.
- Abilene, Texas
- Addison, Texas
- Amarillo, Texas
- Austin, Texas
- Beaumont, Texas
- Bracketville, Texas
- Brownsville, Texas
- Bryan-College Station, Texas
- Corpus Christi, Texas
- Dallas, Texas
- Del Rio, Texas
- Eagle Pass, Texas
- El Paso, Texas
- Fredericksburg, Texas
- Freeport, Texas town
- Galveston, Texas
- Garland, Texas
- Harlingen-San Benito, Texas
- Houston, Texas
- Ingleside, Texas
- Irving, Texas
- Killeen, Texas
- Kingsville, Texas town
- Laguna Vista, Texas
- Laredo, Texas
- Longview, Texas
- Lubbock, Texas
- Lufkin, Texas
- McAllen-Mission, Texas
- Mesquite, Texas
- Midland, Texas
- Odessa, Texas
- Port Aransas, Texas
- Port Arthur, Texas
- Richardson, Texas
- Rockport-Fulton, Texas
- Round Rock, Texas
- San Angelo, Texas
- San Antonio, Texas
- South Padre Island, Texas island
- Tyler, Texas
- Uvalde, Texas
- Victoria, Texas
- Waco, Texas
- Wichita Falls, Texas
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Companies based in Texas
3 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here, and 910 across Texas and the places inside it — search them all below.
| Company | Industry | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| CurioCaster | Software | |
| Finisar | Manufacturing | 1996 |
| Pipeline Sports Network | Sports |
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Texas 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.