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New figures from the U.S. Census Bureau provided insight into which states are growing at the fastest rate.
According to numbers calculated between July 2024 and July 2025, South Carolina claims the title of fastest-growing state.
With nearly 80,000 people added to its population, South Carolina had a growth rate of 1.5%.
The rest of the top-10 includes:
- Idaho
- North Carolina
- Texas
- Utah
- Delaware
- Washington
- Arizona
- Nevada
- Tennessee
Only five states – California, Hawaii, Vermont, New Mexico, and West Virginia – experienced a population decline.
Top 10 States Population Growth Per U.S. Census
1.) 🔴 South Carolina: +1.5%
2.) 🔴 Idaho: +1.4%
3.) 🔴 North Carolina: 1.3%
4.) 🔴 Texas: 1.2%
5.) 🔴 Utah: +1.0%
6.) 🔵 Delaware: +0.9%
7.) 🔵 Washington: +0.9%
8.) 🔴 Arizona: +0.9%
9.) 🔴 Nevada: +0.9%
10.) 🔴 Tennessee: +0.9% https://t.co/LeNM96eRan pic.twitter.com/HRgkrmbJ9T— OSZ (@OpenSourceZone) January 27, 2026
AL.com explained further:
In terms of total population change, no state added more people than Texas, which saw its population surge by nearly 400,000 people, roughly twice as high as second-place Florida.
The U.S. as a whole grew by about 0.5%, a big decline from 2024, when its 1% growth was the fastest in decades.
“The slowdown in U.S. population growth is largely due to a historic decline in net international migration, which dropped from 2.7 million to 1.3 million in the period from July 2024 through June 2025,” said Christine Hartley, assistant division chief for Estimates and Projections at the U.S. Census Bureau. “With births and deaths remaining relatively stable compared to the prior year, the sharp decline in net international migration is the main reason for the slower growth rate we see today.”
Fox News reported last month that Greenville, South Carolina, nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, experienced an uptick in home listings.
FLOCKING SOUTH: U.S. homebuyers are heading to Greenville, South Carolina—a fast-growing city tucked into the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Home listings there jumped 22.4% year over year. pic.twitter.com/1rCzhWhNAs
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 30, 2025
More from The New York Times:
As Mr. Trump continues his term, immigration is expected to drop even further. If current trends continue, it will fall to about 321,000 for the year ending on June 30, according to a Census Bureau news release. That would be lower than during the pandemic year, when net international migration dropped to 376,000, one of the lowest points in modern history.
“The basic goal here was to stop people coming over the border illegally and being released, and to ramp up interior enforcement to actually remove people,” Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said of Mr. Trump’s immigration policy. “This is an indicator that much of the strategy is working.”
President Trump has pledged to bring down levels of illegal immigration through a border shutdown and mass deportations. But although net immigration has declined substantially, it has still not reached the point where more people are leaving the country than arriving.
While the country’s attention has been focused on raids and deportations, those actions accounted for relatively little of the overall decline in net immigration of about 1.5 million. The Census Bureau does not break down what caused the drop, but a New York Times analysis found that about 230,000 people were deported from the United States over the entirety of 2025.
That suggests that deportations are not directly responsible for most of the decline in net immigration numbers.