According to the latest data released by the Census Bureau, most U.S. states have returned to population growth in 2024.
While in 2023, eight states were shrinking, this was down to just three last year.
Notably, Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports that three economically successful states – California, Illinois and New York – returned to growth, as did Hawaii, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Louisiana.
This is despite the fact that New York and Illinois had started to see their populations decline under the old Census since 2016 and 2014, respectively, while California experienced a stagnating number of inhabitants in 2019 and started losing population in 2020 as the pandemic disrupted regular migration patterns and caused 19 states to shrink at the height of the trend in 2022.
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