{"id":458738,"date":"2025-12-19T23:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458738\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:05:13","slug":"california-sees-population-growth-for-third-consecutive-year-after-pandemic-era-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458738\/","title":{"rendered":"California sees population growth for third consecutive year after pandemic-era exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the third consecutive year, California\u2019s population has increased, though the Golden State has still not reached its pre-pandemic population high.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s population grew by about 19,200 people, marking a 0.05% increase from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2025, according to data released Friday by the California Department of Finance<\/a>. The previous year\u2019s growth was slightly larger but still paltry at 0.58%.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean people weren\u2019t continuing to leave the state. <\/p>\n

In fact, the state would have experienced a population loss if not for new births and international arrivals offsetting those departures. Between 2024 and 2025 more Californians moved out of the state than people from other states moved in \u2014 a deficit of approximately 216,000 residents. Between 2023 and 2024, that number was 140,000.<\/p>\n

The report pointed to the Trump administration\u2019s termination of most humanitarian migration programs as a factor in slowing California\u2019s population growth. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2025, most of the humanitarian migration programs were terminated,\u201d the Department of Finance wrote. \u201cAs a result, net international migration for 2024-25 declined to … approximately half of the 2023-24 level.\u201d<\/p>\n

California\u2019s population growing seemed to be a permanent feature until the pandemic, when the California exodus became the state\u2019s first years of population decline, ever. Now, the outlook for the state\u2019s future is mixed, experts say.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith change in policy for international humanitarian migration and deaths returning to long-term trends, California is likely to experience slower growth over the coming several years,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles County saw its population decline slightly, with a net loss of 28,000 people. The county\u2019s population had inched upward from 2023 to 2024 \u2014 the first gains since the pandemic \u2014 but saw that trend reversed this past year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decrease is driven by higher domestic migration due to impacts of wildfires, especially the Palisades and Eaton fires, and a significant decrease in net international migration,\u201d the Department of Finance wrote.<\/p>\n

The report did not state if the Trump administration\u2019s immigration enforcement campaign<\/a> in Los Angeles over the summer had an impact on the county\u2019s numbers.<\/p>\n

As in past years, the state\u2019s biggest population growth was found in the Central Valley and the Sacramento exurbs. The biggest percentage declines were in the northernmost counties and the Sierra foothills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the third consecutive year, California\u2019s population has increased, though the Golden State has still not reached its…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":458739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,3059,3040,525,28462,1730,2961,209684,224,2444,5337,209682,3546,31111,42012,1630,209683,4352],"class_list":{"0":"post-458738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-department","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-golden-state","14":"tag-impact","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-long-term-trend","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-times","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-net-international-migration","21":"tag-people","22":"tag-population","23":"tag-population-growth","24":"tag-report","25":"tag-third-consecutive-year","26":"tag-trump-administration"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115748741169488987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}