COVID Effect. 500,000 new Texans.

What is happening? Nearly 500,000 people have traded-in out of state drivers’ licenses for Texas licenses since the pandemic began.

Why is this important? Roughly 20% of the new Texas drivers licenses replaced a California license. Florida was next, but had 1/3 of the numbers of California.

How will this be important? This trend is all over Texas. Travis County (Austin) had the highest number of Californians. Houston had the highest percentage of drivers license swaps over all, and Comal County, north of San Antonio, had the highest ratio of licenses surrendered in the county to the county population.

Houston Chronicle | Texas drivers license data reveals where new Houston residents are coming from