The Big Shrink that started in 2020 hasn’t stopped, and there are myriad draws to other states, from politics to finances.
The top-line number was eye-opening: Aboutmoved out of California in 2020 to set up new lives in one of the 49 other states or Washington, D.C.
A lot of other new data shows where people are going . Polling reports show who is leaving . And yet other data shows at least some of the financial and social challenges causing problems in California aren’t so different in states wooing the most ex-Californians.“I didn’t think I’d miss it. And, in a lot of ways I was right; I don’t,” said a laughing Debbie Higbee, who last year moved from Burbank to Boise, Idaho, with her husband and their three children.
“Yeah, that was big,” said political scientist Eric McGhee, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California and co-author of a blog about state politics, demographics and other issues related to California’s population. “There have been a handful of years in the past few decades where we had a net gain, but the typical outcome is we lose people,” McGhee said.
Bottom line: California’s population didn’t just grow more slowly in 2020 than it had previously, it actually contracted by nearly 359,000. That happened again in 2021, as California shrank by 114,000 people.According to data released this month by the California Dept. of Finance, the shrink carried into last year, with the state losing about 139,000 people. State officials now estimate California’s population is about 38,940,231, the first time it’s been under 39 million since 2015.
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