Across the U.S., population growth slowed but was still up 1.8 million or 0.5 percent from 2024 to 2025.
South Carolina, Idaho, North Carolina and Texas have seen some of the biggest population increases.
Nearly every state saw their population increase last year.
Hundreds of decisions—how to build roads, where to send medicine, how to plan for natural disasters—depend on knowing where people live. Over the past few decades, population maps have become powerful ...