The fastest-growing city in Texas is a tiny place no one's ever heard of

• Texas' fastest-growing city is a small spot outside Dallas called Josephine, census data shows.
• Josephine has just under 7,000 residents, and thousands of new homes are being built there.
• Some people are moving there to buy newly-built homes, which are relatively affordable, locals said.

In 2022, Cassidy Moore and her husband were searching for their first home together.

Moore — a 31-year-old former nanny who grew up on the outskirts of Dallas-Fort Worth in McKinney, Texas — said she had no desire to purchase a home in Dallas itself, where the couple would have to deal with heavy traffic and a higher cost of living.