by Alexa Ura and Ryan Murphy of the Texas Tribune

After gaining almost 400,000 new residents in one year, Texas is now home to 28.3 million people.

New estimates released Wednesday by the Census Bureau show Texas crossed that population threshold between July 2016 and July 2017 following years of steady growth since the 2010 Census when the state’s population topped off at 25.1 million.

Texas had the seventh fastest growth rate in the country in 2017 – 1.4 percent – and it expe...