{"id":501486,"date":"2026-01-08T14:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501486\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:19:27","slug":"fort-worth-edged-out-by-austin-as-4th-biggest-city-in-texas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501486\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth edged out by Austin as 4th biggest city in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a good run for Fort Worth, but a quick one. New data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/demographics.texas.gov\/Estimates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Demographic Center<\/a> shows Austin is back to being the state&#8217;s fourth-most populous city behind Houston, San Antonio and Dallas. Fort Worth is now No. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworth.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/fort-worth-population-growth\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">had briefly taken the spot as Texas\u2019 fourth-largest city<\/a> as both cities reached a population of 1 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where it stands<br \/><\/strong>In January 2025, Austin overtook Fort Worth by about 34,000 people. Now, the Capital City has a little more than 1,054,000 people. Fort Worth has 1,020,987 residents, the Texas Demographic Center says.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2020, Austin&#8217;s population has grown by about 9.5 percent, while Fort Worth has grown by about 11 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The counties with the most people are Harris, Dallas, Tarrant and Bexar. Travis County takes the fifth spot.<\/p>\n<p>Houston still reigns supreme as the biggest city in the Lone Star State, with more than 2.3 million people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fort Worth&#8217;s time in the spotlight<br \/><\/strong>In November, 2024, the Texas Demographic Center shared data showing that Fort Worth&#8217;s population had increased 7.7 percent (since 2020) to more than 989,878. That was just enough to eclipse Austin, at 986,928.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Texas&#8217; population had been estimated at 30.7 million. The most current estimate the center shows as of January, 2026 \u2014 after tweaks to 2024 data \u2014 is 30.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The dynamic was solidified in May 2025, with U.S. census data placing Austin in <a href=\"https:\/\/austin.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/austin-population-13th-largest-census\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">13th place annually<\/a> and Fort Worth in 11th. San Jose, California, snuck in between the two Texas cities into 12th place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at our news partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/money\/economy\/boomtown-2040\/austin-population-growth\/269-d9102f29-136d-4190-8cd7-fde714543cdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KVUE.com<\/a>. CultureMap has added context to this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a good run for Fort Worth, but a quick one. New data from the Texas Demographic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":494575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,359,7371,7372,42012,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-501486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-population-growth","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}