POPULATION GROWTH
The population in Hays County is exploding. For several years now, the county has been in the top ten fastest growing counties in the nation. For the 2022 to 2023 data, it was bumped to the 16th fastest growing in the nation, but that’s not due to any slowdown in the quickly growing population. According to the Texas State Demographer Lloyd Potter, this just means that there are other counties in the U.S. that are growing even faster than Hays.
“If you look from year to year there’s a slight fluctuation in its dynamics, in particular domestic migration, but it kind of goes up and down just a little bit. But it’s still pretty solid. I’m not seeing anything very dramatic there in terms of its change,” Potter said. “The only reason it might change its rank is because other counties are growing faster. It may not be that Hays County’s percent change is really changing that much … again it will fluctuate up and down a little bit from year to year, but I don’t see anything changing really dramatically in Hays County.”
