Houston City Population 2024. The supreme court says cities can punish people for sleeping in public places. Houston is currently growing at a rate of 0.21% annually and its population has increased by 0.86% since the most recent census , which recorded a population of 2,299,269 in 2020.
Texas water development board, january 2006 Los angeles and chicago follow, each with more than 2.5 million residents, and southern us cities houston and phoenix round out the top five with populations of almost 2.3 million and 1.6 million, respectively.