The LA Times is reporting a state Finance department estimate that our state population is slowing rising again
The estimated (California) population rose 0.88%, exceeding 38.2 million as of July 2013. Between July 2012 and July 2013, roughly 170,000 more people came to California from other countries than left, according to the estimates. At the same time, nearly 103,000 more residents left California for other parts of the United States than came into the Golden State. The result was a net increase of 66,000 people who came to California from elsewhere.
The fastest-growing counties were in the Bay Area — Alameda and Santa Clara — which grew by 1.68% and 1.47% respectively, according to the new estimates.
Current California residents left and foreign immigrants arrived at a 30% higher rate in fiscal 2012. That's neither good nor bad, just interesting.
We have been doing very well on keeping the spammers out lately. TypePad has caught literally hundreds of spam comments to the one or two that slip through, but the one on this thread today reminded me of a good place to put this little tidbit from today's WSJ--then I will delete the spam.
"The U.S. population grew only 0.74% between 2011 and 2012 and only 0.72% between 2010 and 2011. Those rates are well below the average of 1.2% seen during the economic boom of the 1990s. In the 1950s, the population grew about 1.8% a year on average."
So last year we added about 2.2M people nationwide. Something to keep in mind when you hear the wild ABAG forecasts for Bay Area population growth.
Posted by: Joe | December 31, 2013 at 12:06 PM