The Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth metro areas grew faster than any region in the country last year, according to a new estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The 2009 metro area population estimate shows that some 6.45 million people lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex as of July 1, 2009, up 146,530, or 2.3 percent.
That raw influx of 146,530 is more than any other region in the nation.
The Houston metro area had the second-largest influx of residents at 140,784 or 2.5 percent, pushing the region’s total population to 5.86 million.
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