America's 30 Largest Cities, 2026 · Six of Them Are in Texas

U.S. Market · Population and Geography, 2026

America's 30 Largest Cities · Six of Them in Texas

New York remains far ahead at 8,546,038 — about 2.45% of the country on its own — followed by Los Angeles (3,863,148) and Chicago (2,727,758). Houston is fourth at 2,419,191. Six of the thirty are Texan: Houston, San Antonio (6), Dallas (9), Fort Worth (10), Austin (12) and El Paso (25). No other state has more; California has four.

Horizontal bar chart of the thirty largest U.S. cities by city-proper population in 2026, from New York at 8,546,038 down to Memphis at 606,132. The six Texas cities are highlighted in amber: Houston fourth at 2,419,191, San Antonio sixth, Dallas ninth, Fort Worth tenth, Austin twelfth and El Paso twenty-fifth. — The thirty largest U.S. cities by city-proper population, 2026 estimates. Texas cities in amber. Chart: Cube-Age.

Why this matters for B2B

For a wholesaler this is a delivery map, not a population table. Four of the six Texas cities — Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio — are inside a day's drive of our Houston floor; El Paso, about 745 miles out, is not. That is a lot of urban demand reachable on one truck route, which is why a Houston warehouse serves a wider market than the city's own numbers suggest. Read alongside Houston's population and economy, how the ranking shifted over 235 years and the Texas market.

Source: World Population Review, 2026 city population estimates. These are an aggregator's estimates for the city proper, not a census count, and they exclude the wider metro area. Chart built by Cube-Age from the published list; the original infographic was not reproduced.