14 incredible facts about Texas
Texas has enough crude oil reserves to fill up almost 1,588 Empire State Buildings.
There are enough registered machine guns in Texas to arm every student enrolled at Harvard and Dartmouth.
There are 28,690 registered machine guns in Texas.
There are about 21,000 students enrolled at Harvard and 6,298 students enrolled at Dartmouth.
Source: My San Antonio
Thirty-five North Dakotas would still have fewer businesses than Texas.
There are 1.65 million undocumented immigrants in Texas. That's more than the population of Philadelphia.
People living in Texas illegally make up 6% of the population and 9% of the workforce.
The population of Philadelphia is 1,560,297. It is the fifth most populated city in the US.
Source: The Washington Post
If Texas were its own country, it would have the 12th-highest GDP in the World.
Texas' gross domestic product is $1.65 trillion. It has a larger GDP than Australia and Korea (both about $1.4 trillion) but falls short of Canada ($1.7 trillion.)
Notably, over the past 20 years, Texas has become an increasingly important part of the US economy. In 1995, it made up 6.5% of the total US GDP; by 2014 it was over 9%
Source: World Bank
In just four years, Texas' population increased by an amount equal to the current populations of New Hampshire and Wyoming.
In 2010, Texas' population was 25.1 million. Four years later, it's 26.95 million.
New Hampshire's population is 1.3 million and Wyoming's population is 584,000.
Source: US Census
There are more obese adults in Texas than there are people in Minnesota.
In Texas, 30.9% of adults are obese and 35.3% of adults are overweight.
The estimated population of adults in Texas is 18.2 million. That means an estimated 5.6 million people are obese and 6.45 million people are overweight in Texas.
There are 5.4 million people living in Minnesota.
Source: CDC, Dallas News
The total weight of catfish consumed in Texas annually is more than the weight of 6.5 Eiffel Towers.
Texans consume 109 million pounds of catfish a year.
The Eiffel Tower weighs 7,300 tons.
Source: Politifact
The population of Hispanic and Latino people in Texas is greater than the population of Georgia.
The Hispanic and Latino population is 38.6%, or 10.4 million people.
The population of Georgia is 10.1 million.
Source: US Census
There are more people living below poverty in Texas than the combined populations of Los Angeles and Detroit.
Texans working in renewable energy can make more than entry-level Wall Streeters.
Texan workers in renewable-energy industries earn an average salary 85% above the state average.
They earn an average annual salary of $78,257. And those working in "wind electric power generation" and "semiconductors, solar cells, and related devices manufacturing" earned an annual wage of $114,920.
Entry-level analysts are paid "upwards of $100,000 right out of college," but Glassdoor estimates that this number is $72,607 on average.
Some 7.7% of all US homes are in Texas.
In Texas, there are 10,426,080 housing units.
In the US, there is a total of 133,957,180 housing units.
Source: US Census
Texas' total area is twice the size of Germany.
Texas is the largest state in the contiguous US with an area of 268,820 square miles. This is 7.4% of the total US.
Germany's area is 137,847 square miles.
Source: About Geography
Texas is building 185 times more buildings than Rhode Island.
In 2014 there were 166,982 building permits in Texas.
In 2014 there were 952 building permits in Rhode Island.
Source: US Census
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