County
Ellis County, Texas
County ranked by announced AI data-center load
Undisclosed
Announced AI load
Property tax Δ (3y)
+14.2%
Population (2024 ACS)
213K
Median HH income (2024 ACS)
$99,595
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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)
Local socioeconomics
- 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)
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