What readers need to know
The U.S. Census Bureau on Dec. 12 released new five-year data for 2023 as part of its American Community Survey, or ACS. The results show, among many shifts, League City is continuing to grow and is also becoming more diverse.
The new data represents a 5-year estimate of the population across the country from 2019 to 2023, according to the Census website. This data compares with the 2018 survey results, which studied the country from 2014 to 2018.
In the new 2023 data, League City grew from around 101,000 people to nearly 115,000, which represents a nearly 14% increase, according to the survey results.
Galveston County grew from 332,885 people to 354,721, which represents a 8.4% increase over that time, according to the ACS data.
Diving in deeper
Demographically, people who identified themselves as only white made up 70.7% of League City’s population, results show. That is down compared to the 2018 results, which was 80.5%.
However, the percentage of people who identified as white in some capacity, including in combination with another race, remained just shy of 83% across both five-year studies, according to the data.
One of the largest demographic shifts came from people who identified themselves as two or more races, making up around 2,800 people, or 2.8%, in the 2018 results to more than 14,000, or 12.3%, in 2023.
Those who identified as Hispanic or Latino grew in total population by nearly 2,000 but their percentage of the total population dropped from 20.1% to 19.3%, data shows.
Similar to League City, Galveston County saw the percentage of people who identified only as white drop from 78.2% to 64.5%, according to the data. Those who identified as two or more races went from 3.1% in the 2018 results to 15.1% in 2023.
That change compares to the state, which saw a similar trend, data shows. In the 2018 results, Texas saw 2.6% of people identify as two or more races. That increased to 19.2% in 2023. Those identifying only as white made up 74.3% of the population in the 2018 results compared to 53.9% in 2023.
Sorting out details
League City also got older as its median age went from 34.9 to 37.7 over the five-year period, data shows. Specifically, the percentage of people 24 years or younger went from 35.8% in the 2018 results to around 33% in 2023. Whereas those 55 and older went from 20.9% of the population in 2018 to 23.6% of the population in that time.
The range of age between 25 to 54 years old made up about 43% of the population in both the 2018 and 2023 results, according to the data.
The median age for Galveston County also got slightly older, up one year from 37.5 to 38.5, according to the data. That is reflected in the age demographics, which saw those aged 55 and older go from 26.9% of the total population to 28.5%.
Clear Creek ISD within its boundaries had a population of 247,730 in the 2023 results, which is up by 5% from a total of 235,653 in the 2018 results, according to the Census data.
Despite this, the number of people who are aged 19 or under declined slightly, from 65,231 to 64,873, according to the data. Clear Creek ISD has seen enrollment either stagnate or decline in recent years, according to district data.
In that time, the median age has gone up as well from 36.7 years old to 39, according to the data.
What else?
Webster grew slightly in that time period as well, from 11,165 to 12,283, according to the data.
