What is the population of houston tx?
Houston, the largest city in Texas, is also the fourth largest US city with a population of 2,242,193 as of July 1, 2008. It is 9.22% of the estimated population of Texas which is 24,326,974. For the period 2000 – 2008, Houston added 268,041 persons, second only to New York City. Females make up about half of the population (50.1%) and there is a large growing Hispanic group of about 37.4%.
