If you moved somewhere new within the U.S. last year, there's a good chance you moved into one of Texas's rapidly growing counties. Of the top 10 counties that Americans moved to last year, five were in Texas according to new population estimates from the Census Bureau.

The Houston and Dallas metros, especially, have seen enormous growth — the most of any metro in the country — bolstered in large part by people from other parts of the country moving into the suburban counties surrounding the bustling cities at the center of those metro areas.

A CHANGING HOUSTON: Why Houston metro’s population spiked in recent years, outpacing trends in NYC, L.A. and Chicago

But domestic migration, or people moving into an area from other areas of the country, is not the whole story. International migration – people moving into an area from outside of the country – and natural change – births minus deaths in an area – also play a big factor.

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