Explosive Asian Growth Shapes a New Texas
By James Moreau | 09 Apr, 2025

The Asian population is booming in Texas, making it the nation's second-largest state for Asian residents.

A 64% surge in its Asian population over the past decade has thrust Texas past New York to second place among US states. 

The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has been at the forefront of this expansion, adding over 48,000 Asian Americans in the last year alone.  The area’s big draw appears to be strong job growth in the telecom, aerospace, and healthcare sectors, among employers like AT&T, Cisco, Lockheed Martin and the UT Southwestern Medical Center.

The prevalence of STEM careers in the Dallas area have swelled Asian American median household income to $118,000, 43% higher than the figure for all races. 

Over the past decade Fort Worth has seen the biggest overall population growth, with Asians making up 20% of that increase, more than doubling their presence.  The trend is accelerating — taking only the past year Asian Americans accounted for 60% of Fort Worth’s growth. 

Thanks to a whopping six-fold increase in the Indian population, the Dallas suburb of Frisco has trebled its Asian American population from 11% a decade ago to 34% today.  Underscoring Frisco’s explosive growth, during the past year it added more Asians than any other US city, just below the megalopolises of Los Angeles and Phoenix. 

McKinney, another DFW suburb, has seen its Asian population more than treble over the past decade, from 4.7% to 15.3%.  Other DFW suburbs like Irving, Plano, Allen, and Flower Mound have paralleled that growth rate, with each now logging Asian percentages of 15% or greater. 

Within those six suburbs Asians accounted for 64% of the total population growth, with Indians alone making up 44%, or over two-thirds of the overall Asian growth. In fact, Irving’s Indian population is now 72% of its total Asian population, making it the country’s most Indian city. 

Moving south, the Austin area has more than doubled its Asian population in the past decade, now comprising 9.6% of the total population. This growth was driven by a trebling of the Indian segment which now represents over a third of Austin’s Asian population.  

A concentration of tech giants like Dell, Apple and Tesla has prompted some to dub the Austin area Silicon Hills.  High participation in those tech jobs have given Asian American households a median income of $130,000, 29% higher than for white residents. 

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