10 facts about houston, texas

In the U.S.

state of Texas, Houston is the largest city by both population and area. With a 1850 United States census population of 2,396—and 596,163 a century later, in 1950—Houston's population has experienced positive growth trends.^[1] In 2000, the city had a population of 1,953,631 people in 717,945 households and 457,330 families,^[2] increasing to 2,304,580 at the 2020 census.^[3]

In common with most U.S.

communities leading up to the 20th and 21st centuries, Houston was a predominantly non-Hispanic white city. Since the New Great Migration and immigration from Latin America, Africa, and Asia during the latter half of the 20th century, the city has become a majority-minority city with Hispanic and Latino Americans, and African Americans constituting the largest non-Anglo American share of the population.

According to Los Angeles Times and NPR in 2017 and 2013, Houston has been described as the most diverse place i

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