City Of Houston Population 2024. The current metro area population of houston in 2024 is 6,802,000, a 1.42% increase from 2023. Los angeles and chicago follow, each with more than 2.5 million residents, and southern us cities.

Houston, texas (ktrk) — new data from the u.s. 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.