About 414k people moved to California from other states. No relief for our housing shortage. I’m no longer confident we will see a precipitous price drop of any kind. 😢
Fewer deaths and more immigrants helped increase California’s population in 2023. According to new state data, California’s population rose last year for the first time since 2020.
According to population estimates released April 30 by the Cal Dept. of Finance, the state’s population increased by 0.17%—or more than 67k people—between Jan. 1, 2023, and Jan. 1, 2024, when Calif. was home to 39Mil people.
That resumption of growth was driven by a number of factors:
Deaths, which rose during the peak of COVID
have fallen nearly to pre-pandemic levels.
In 2021, as the pandemic raged, more than 319k people died in California, and fewer than 420k were born, the data show. Last year, about 281k died in the state, while nearly 399k were born.
Immigration
And while California saw a net loss of nearly 3,900 people to international immigration in 2020 — The state saw a net gain of more than 114,000 international immigrants last year, according to state data.
In 2021, about 692,000 people left California for other states, while fewer than 337,000 moved into the Golden State from other states.
Last year, about 414k people moved here from other states, while more than 505,000 left for other states. According to the new state data, California lost 264,500 fewer people to other states last year than in 2021.
Los Angeles and Orange counties grew last year, though not by much; the former saw a population rise of just 0.05% — or nearly 4,800 people — while the latter notched up 0.31% — or nearly 9,800 people.
For both jurisdictions, that’s a reversal from 2022, when L.A. County saw a net loss of nearly 42,200 residents and Orange County lost about 17,000 residents.
Oh Yes, the recent imports are going to clog the 2M+ housing market for sure. Now you can see why developers keep putting in Malls and shopping centers that are destined to fail (which is planned, if you read the details on the contracts with the cities that approve the initial build) only to bait and switch once the rents double over a few years and the malls and centers are no longer deemed "profitable" by the language in contract and are then rezoned for affordable housing and section 8 in your once fine small enclave of suburbia. They are all in on it, and we are getting screwed. But keep telling yourself that it is all worth it because at a moments notice you can sell and move to Franklin, TN and buy a cheaper....wait, no I mean Coeur D'Alene to buy a cheaper....no, wait, Lubbock Texas to buy a cheaper home and live like a king.
Dude…500k are from other countries
But we lead the nation in unemployment rate. Tax rates. And homeless population.
Gavin has achieved a hat trick