Aidee del Villar, left, owner of Me Enloteces, hands Mia Aleman, 13, an order of Takis Elote outside of a Canales Furniture store during a pop-up event with other local food vendors in Mesquite, on Friday, July 28, 2023.Nearly two-thirds of workers added to the state’s labor force over the last decade are Hispanic, filling a critical need during a shortage of workers as they become Texas’ largest ethnic group.
Texan Hispanics are among the top in the nation in their contributions to the state’s gross domestic income, bringing in $465 billion, as measured by income received from productive activities, second to California Latinos who earned $682 billion. Latinos were responsible for nearly 40% of Texas’ economic growth between 2011 and 2021, outpacing the group’s role in California and Florida, according to the U.S. Latino GDP report.
Across the board, domestic migration has been the state’s largest component of population change in recent years. More than half of the state’s population growth in 2020 to 2021 stemmed from Americans moving in from other states, according to the Texas Demographic Center. But that hasn’t always been the case. From 2010 to 2020, domestic migration made up less than a third of population change and international migration made up 20.8% and births made up 48.1%.