Ellis County, Texas

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

Undisclosed Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

Google

Resi rate Δ (Oncor)

n/a

Home price Δ (3y)

+6.3%

Property tax Δ (3y)

+14.2%

Population (2024 ACS)

213K

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$99,595

Key takeaways

Ellis County has 213,160 residents and hosts two announced Google campuses, in Midlothian and Red Oak. Midlothian alone has nearly doubled from 18,037 to 35,125 residents between 2010 and 2020, a 94.7% jump.Source: Census ACS 2024 B01003 + data/sites/data_centers.csv + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Midlothian, TX)
Midlothian already hosts three of the top 10 US cement plants, run by Martin Marietta, Holcim, and Ash Grove, plus a Gerdau Ameristeel mill. The Google campus is landing next to an already heavy-industrial grid corner.Source: sources[0] (Wikipedia: Midlothian, TX)
Property tax assessments rose 14.2% over three years against a county median household income of $99,595 and a median home value of $348,600. Home prices are still up 6.3% on a 3-year baseline despite the DFW correction nearby.Source: data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv + data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv (FIPS 48139) + Census ACS 2024 B19013, B25077
The Red Oak Google build is a $600 million Ellis County site, and both campuses sit on Oncor's ERCOT grid with no published residential rate delta. Ellis is the only batch-4 county where a single hyperscaler runs two separate campuses.Source: data/sites/data_centers.csv + data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (no Oncor residential row)

11.8% of Ellis County's working population is in manufacturing, the highest mfg share in batch 4 and double the Texas state baseline. The cement plants and Gerdau steel mill already anchor an industrial-grid corner that Google's two campuses are extending.Source: Census ACS 2023 C24050 (FIPS 48139)
76.3% of Ellis households own their home, the highest ownership rate of any metro-scale county in batch 4. The county sits between Dallas exurbs and rural cropland, and its housing stock has stayed mostly out of the DFW rental market.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25003 (FIPS 48139)
27.6% of Ellis residents are Hispanic, the highest Hispanic share of any DFW-suburban county in batch 4. Midlothian and Waxahachie absorbed working-class Latino families pushed out of inner Dallas during the 2010s housing run.Source: Census ACS 2023 B03003 (FIPS 48139)
Just 8.1% of Ellis residents live in poverty and 4.0% are unemployed, both at the metro-Texas baseline despite the heavy-industrial labor mix. 91.7% of households have broadband at home.Source: Census ACS 2023 B17001, B23025, B28002 (FIPS 48139)