Houston Gain Most Child Population Of U.s. Metro Areas

Houston Gain Most Child Population Of U.s. Metro Areas

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During the decade, the population of white children declined by 4.3 million nationally, while the number of Hispanic and Asian children grew by 5.5 million, the report stated.

In Texas, 95 percent of child population growth occurred among Hispanics, 931,000 of the 979,000 increase, according to the report written by Dr. William H. Frey, a demographer and sociologist at Brookings, a nonprofit public policy group in Washington, D.C. The states child population growth accounted for about half of the overall national increase in children.

The Dallas and Houston areas gained more children than any other metropolitan areas, with Hispanic children accounting for 250,000 of Dallas increase of 323,000, and 255,000 of Houstons gain of 294,000.

But in almost half of the states and nearly a third of major metropolitan areas, child population declined. White child populations dropped in 46 states and in 86 of the 100 largest metro areas. White children are now a minority in 10 states, including Texas, and 35 metro areas, including Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. Every large metro area in Texas now has a majority minority population.

The census numbers show a nation rapidly becoming more diverse, with the new minorities fueling growth and providing increases in populations that would have declined without them.

Initial results from the 2010 census now make clear why the contributions of these groups are so important, Dr. Frey wrote. With a rapidly aging white population, the United States depends increasingly on these new minorities to infuse its youth population and eventually its labor force with needed demographic heft and vitality.

Dr. Steve Murdock, director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University, said the growing number of minority children reinforces the need for educational opportunities, the single best indicator of future income.

When we look at some of the numbers now for Texas, we find 43 percent of Hispanics 25 and older have less than a high school education, Dr. Murdock said. If you want to change that, you need to work with these children.

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