California’s population is decliningĬalifornia’s population fell 1.2% between 2020 to 2022 to just over 39 million people. Here are five charts that help explain the exodus out of the Bay Area and California – who’s moving out, where they’re going and what neighborhoods they’re leaving behind. While there are signs the exodus is slowing, a falling population is threatening to upend everything from school enrollment to tax revenue to business vitality – raising the prospect of a dreaded economic “ doom loop.” Still the Bay Area’s largest city, with a population of around 970,000, San Jose has shed some 50,000 residents since before the pandemic, dropping to 12th place nationally. That phenomenon contributed to Austin, Texas, last week officially knocking off San Jose as the country’s 10th largest city. Bay Area residents, fed up with high housing costs, crime and other quality-of-life concerns, have packed up and left the region in droves since the start of the pandemic in 2020.ĭuring that time, the Bay Area’s population dropped roughly 3% as more people, many liberated by remote work, fled to less expensive parts of the state and country.
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