Since 2018, that outmigration has outpaced international migration into the state, leaving “natural increase,” or the difference between births and deaths, as the only source of population growth, the Department of Finance said. In 28 of the last 30 years, the state has seen more people moving out than in, according to state officials. Otherwise, people are continuing to leave California. The addition of 2020’s COVID-19-related deaths, combined with immigration restrictions in the past year, tipped population change to an annual loss,” the Department of Finance said in a statement. “In recent years, the slowdown in natural increase - a nationwide trend affecting California more than other states - has contributed to the state’s population growth slowing and plateauing. The nationwide trend of declining birth rates also impacts California more than most states, resulting in a population drop of 24,000 as calculated by annual births minus deaths.
Meanwhile, 51,000 Californians died of the coronavirus in 2020 - pushing the average death rate 19 percent higher than in preceding years. That includes 53,000 international students who remained home due to global restrictions. The biggest loss of California residents in 2020 was due to a continued decline in foreign immigration into the state, “a direct impact” of the Trump administration’s suspension of some visas when the pandemic hit, according to the Department of Finance.ĭeclines in foreign immigration accounted for 100,000 less people living in California, according to the state. Newsom critics in the past year have pointed to California’s pandemic restrictions and school closures as additional reasons to flee.īut state officials insisted Friday that the population decline is likely a blip due to the unprecedented pandemic, and that California is projected to return to “slight annual positive growth” when estimates are released next year. Republicans have long assailed the state’s regulations and tax rates as reasons to leave for red states, a point punctuated by the departure of Tesla CEO Elon Musk for Texas last year.
Gavin Newsom, who is facing a recall election, are sure to use the historic decline as proof of California’s woes.
This migration, over the decades, has the power to reshape the state,” states a separate report by the Public Policy Institute of California released Thursday. “Business friendly policies, less regulations, taxes: all of these things are playing a role,” he said.“Much has been made of the California exodus, and rightly so. Torres said even during the pandemic, most Texas transplants are coming for economic opportunities. For Californians, however, Travis County was their top destination in 2020. So if you look at all of them you will see it’s the Texas Triangle,” he said. And then we have Tarrant County, part of Dallas-Fort Worth, Bexar County, Travis County. Harris County is the top one, with 10.4% of movers. “They’re moving basically to the four major. In terms of destinations, Torres said, most of the out-of-state newcomers found homes in Texas’ big cities. Others in the top 10 included Cook County, Illinois, Clark County, Nevada and El Paso County, Colorado. Maricopa County in Arizona was second on the county list of most popular origins for Texas transplants. counties sending residents to Texas last year, making up 3.1% of the total migration.
Los Angeles County topped the list of all U.S. “You know, people think it’s people coming from Silicon Valley, San Francisco - those counties - but no, the majority of movers are from Southern California,” he said. Texas A&M research economist Luis Torres, who co-authored the study, said he was surprised that most movers are coming from Southern California. The only exception was 2005, when Hurricane Katrina forced thousands of Louisiana residents to find homes in its neighboring state. The study finds Californians accounted for 15.2% of all out-of-state residents who relocated to the Lone Star State last year.Ĭalifornia has been Texas’ top origin for U.S. Nearly one of every six people who moved to Texas in 2020 hailed from California, according to a new report from Texas A&M’s Real Estate Research Center.
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