Migration into the state, coupled with generally higher fertility among Latinos than in the non-Hispanic white population, has also driven an increase in the state's Latino population, he said.
Texas added 234,000 Hispanic residents over the year, the most of any state, bringing the overall Hispanic population to roughly 11.2 million.
Still, Potter said that his office, which produces detailed population estimates for the coming years and decades, pushed forward its forecast for when the state would switch from having more white people than any other race to having a Latino plurality.
"We had projected that the Latino population would exceed the ... white population by 2020 and that's probably not going to happen," he said.
Based on the new trends, he said, he now expects Latinos to outnumber non-Hispanic white people in Texas by 2022.
That's probably a result of a slight decline in birth rates among Latinos as well as a slowing of immigration from Mexico and other Latin American countries over the last decade, Potter said.
Meanwhile, he said, growth in the state's white population has effectively flattened.
In any case, demographers have said for years that Texas' increasing ethnic diversity will shape the state's future.
The Lone Star State's populations of Asians and people who identified as two or more races both grew by about 4 percent over the year.
And at 3.8 million, Texas had the largest black or African-American population of any state in the country.
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