"The big picture is California is growing again," said Hans Johnson, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. "It shows California has a pretty healthy growth rate... The number of people who are coming into the state from abroad has increased, the number of people leaving for other states has decreased."
California's 0.6% population increase also fell short of the national average (0.9%) and was significantly outpaced by the District of Columbia (2.2%), Florida (2%) and Texas (1.8%).
While California's population gain of 232,570 people from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2024, represents the largest numeric population increase in the nation's West, it lagged behind Texas, which expanded its population by 562,941, and Florida, which grew by 467,347 people.
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