Texas Tops The List Of Nation’s Per Person Fastest-Growing State, Idaho By Percentages

Texas is the nation’s per person fastest-growing state over the last year and Idaho was the nation’s fastest-growing state over the last year by percentages.

Texas is the nation’s per person fastest-growing state over the last year and Idaho was the nation’s fastest-growing state over the last year by percentages. 

Texas was the nation’s fastest-growing state over the last year per person gain. A per person population increase of 399,734 or 1.4 percent for a total 28.3 million in population from July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s national and state population estimates released this week.

NOTE: See top 10 per person population, top 10 by percentages and top 10 most populous states below.

Idaho’s population increase per person was 36,917 or 2.2 percent to 1.7 million in total population from July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2017.

Following Texas for the largest per person increase in population were: Florida (327,811). California (240,177), Washington (124,809), North Carolina (116,730).

Following Idaho for the largest percentage increases in population were: Nevada (2.0 percent), Utah (1.9 percent), Washington (1.7 percent), and Florida along with Arizona (1.6 percent).

Growth in states without or flat rate individual state income taxes

The most growth happened from 2016 – 2017 happened in states that either don’t have individual state income taxes or the states that have a flat rate.

Currently there are seven states that do not have state income taxes

• Texas (#1 in top 10 per person population growth from 2016 – 2017)
• Florida (#2 in top 10 per person population growth from 2016 – 2017)
• Nevada (#2 in top 10 in percentage growth from 2016 – 2017)
• Washington (#4 in top 10 per person population growth from 2016 – 2017)
• Alaska
• Wyoming
• South Dakota 

Current states with flat rate individual income taxes

• Colorado  (#8 in top 10 per person population growth from 2016 – 2017)
• North Carolina  (#5 in top 10 per person population growth from 2016 – 2017)
• Utah (#3 in top 10 in percentage growth from 2016 – 2017)
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Pennsylvania

States in top 10 growth with local income taxes in addition to state-level income tax

• California:
  • San Francisco (payroll only)

• Colorado:
  • Some municipalities, including Denver and Aurora (flat-fee Occupational Privilege tax for privilege of working or conducting business; filed with municipality imposing fee)

• Oregon:
  • Portland (all residents must file an Arts tax form with the city to either pay the flat-fee tax or qualify for an exemption based on low individual or household income)
  • Lane Transit District (self-employed with income sourced from Lane Transit District, which includes parts of Lane County; reported on separate state tax form LTD)
  • Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District (self-employed with income sourced from TriMet, which includes parts of Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties; reported on separate state tax form TM)
  • Other transit districts (businesses with income sourced from those transit districts; filed with transit districts or municipalities administering transit districts)

The U.S. population grew by 2.3 million between July 1, 2016, and July 1, 2017, representing a 0.72 percent increase to 325.7 million.

Furthermore, the population of voting-age residents (adults age 18 and over) grew to 252.1 million (77.4 percent of the 2017 total population), an increase of 0.93 percent from 2016 (249.5 million).

Net international migration decreased 1.8 percent between 2016 and 2017, making it the first drop since 2012-2013. However, net international migration continues to be a significant factor in the population growth of the United States, adding just over 1.1 million people in the last year.

Eight states lost population between July 1, 2016, and July 1, 2017. Illinois had the largest numeric decline, losing 33,703 people (this was a relatively small percentage change compared to its population of 12.8 million). Wyoming had the largest percentage decline (1.0 percent). Three states that had been losing population in the previous year, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Vermont, saw slight increases.

States in the South and West continued to lead in population growth. In 2017, 38.0 percent of the nation’s population lived in the South and 23.8 percent lived in the West.

In addition to the population estimates for the 50 states and the District of Columbia, the new estimates show that Puerto Rico had an estimated population of 3.3 million, a decline from 3.4 million in 2016.

Also released were the national-and state-level estimates of the components of population change, which include tables on births, deaths and migration.

During 2018, the U.S. Census Bureau will release estimates of the 2017 population of counties, cities and towns, and metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, as well as national, state and county population estimates by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin. Population estimates for Puerto Rico and its municipios by age and sex will be released as well.

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau and Wikipedia