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2020: The 2020 count

105,995 people in the 2020 census, and an estimate of 113,723 five years on.

Town and civic· 2020–2025

113,723 residents, Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 20254

Tyler City SquareOakwood CemeteryGoodman-LeGrand HouseNear the ordnance plantCamp FordSmith County Jail (1881)St. James C.M.E. ChurchMarvin Methodist ChurchTexas CollegeCarnegie LibraryCotton Belt DepotBergfeld ParkThe 1910 courthouse (site)Black Wall Street (210 E. Erwin)Tyler Junior CollegeLiberty HallPeople’s National Bank BuildingU.S. Post Office and CourthouseBlackstone BuildingTyler Rose GardenLincoln ParkRose StadiumTyler Civic TheatreSmith County CourthouseUT TylerTyler Museum of ArtBroadway Square Mall
What the sources put on the map by 2025, over today’s streets.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The record

  1. 2000 and 2010

    The census counts 83,650 people in 2000 and 96,900 in 2010. Of them, 22,275 are Black or African American alone in 2000, about 27 percent, and 23,986 in 2010, about 25 percent.123

  2. 2020

    The 2020 census counts 105,995 residents in Tyler.4

  3. July 1, 2025

    The Census Bureau estimates 113,723 residents, up about 7.4% from its April 2020 estimates base of 105,867.4

  4. July 1, 2025

    The Tyler metro area is Smith County alone, with an estimated 252,549 people.5

  5. July 2020 to July 2025

    Smith County grows mainly because people move in from elsewhere in the U.S.: Census estimates show net domestic migration added about 13,980 people, compared with about 2,340 from international migration and about 1,845 from births minus deaths.6

Notes

  1. U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census SF1 table P001 (data.census.gov API), Tyler city, Texas (data.census.gov); Handbook of Texas: Tyler, TX (Christopher Long) (tshaonline.org). Research notes

  2. U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census SF1 table P1 (data.census.gov API), Tyler city, Texas (data.census.gov); Handbook of Texas: Tyler, TX (Christopher Long) (tshaonline.org). Research notes

  3. U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census SF1 table P003 (Race), Tyler city (data.census.gov); U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census SF1 table P3 (Race), Tyler city (data.census.gov). Research notes

  4. U.S. Census Bureau data file: sub-est2025.csv (www2.census.gov); Handbook of Texas: Tyler, TX (tshaonline.org); U.S. Census Bureau data file: 2024_gaz_place_48.txt (www2.census.gov); U.S. Census Bureau data file: sub-est2025_48.csv (www2.census.gov); U.S. Census Bureau (data.census.gov): table DECENNIALDHC2020.P9, Tyler city (data.census.gov). The 2025 figure is a Census Bureau estimate. Research notes

  5. U.S. Census Bureau data file: cbsa-est2025-alldata.csv (www2.census.gov); U.S. Census Bureau data file: sub-est2025.csv (www2.census.gov); Handbook of Texas: Smith County (tshaonline.org); U.S. Census Bureau data file: co-est2025-alldata.csv (www2.census.gov). Research notes

  6. U.S. Census Bureau data file: co-est2025-alldata.csv (www2.census.gov). Research notes

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