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Census field brief · Latest ACS

California to Texas migration

77,161 Texas residents said they lived in California one year earlier. This is the largest recorded outbound destination from California in the latest state-to-state table; it is a count of people, not moving trucks.

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Both directions and their 90% margins of error are in the figures below. The optional 3D view shows the same estimates.

Reading the latest table

A large flow in both directions, with a clear gap

California → Texas

77,161

± 9,059 at 90%

Texas → California

45,447

± 6,640 at 90%

Difference

31,714

± 11,232 at 90%

The ACS compares where people age one and older lived when surveyed with where they lived one year before. The California-to-Texas estimate has a 90% margin of error of 9,059; its approximate 90% interval is 68,102–86,220. It does not identify why someone moved, how many households hired a mover, or how many remained in Texas afterward.

The reverse estimate is 45,447. The 31,714-person difference exceeds its combined 90% margin of error (± 11,232), so this table distinguishes the two directions at that confidence level. This is a comparison of two survey estimates, not a forecast.

Scale and geography

Why this pair stands out

The ACS estimates 661,205 people moving to another state in this table. Texas accounts for 11.7% of that outbound estimate and ranks 1 among 50 destinations. Viewed from Texas, the California origin represents 13.9% of its 556,156 arrivals from other states.

Among 2,096 eligible state pairs, this flow ranks 1. California and Texas do not share a land border. Their state-centroid separation is 1,213 straight-line miles; a particular city-to-city drive will differ. The Census table contains no route mileage, moving quote, fuel expense, or delivery time.

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Citable statement

In the 2024 ACS 1-year Table T13, 77,161 Texas residents reported living in California a year earlier (90% margin of error ± 9,059).

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, State-to-State Migration Flows, released 2026-01-21. This measures previous residence, not household-goods shipments.See extraction and uncertainty method.