Domestic outmigration — those leaving California for another state — grew from 2023 to 2024, a sign that the state is still ...

California has historically depended on immigration to counterbalance its population loss to other parts of the country.

California's population trickled upward by just 0.05 percent from 2024 to 2025, as Los Angeles lost population due to ...

California’s population rose last year for the first time since 2020, according to new state data. The state’s population increased by 0.17% — or more than 67,000 people — between Jan. 1, 2023, and ...

California's population has increased slightly in recent years, but the state's decades-long failure to build enough homes to meet demand has resulted in high rents and prices, making it difficult for ...

Hikers enjoy views of the southland along Griffith Park's Mount Hollywood Trail. California's population has bounced back to levels the Golden State reached before the pandemic. (Al Seib / Los Angeles ...

California’s years of major population growth have ended, and a state forecast suggests that the numbers might peak by as early as 2030 and then start to decline. At the turn of the century, when the ...

San Diego, the state's second-most populous county, had a population of 3,336,081 persons in fiscal year 2025.

California lost 182,083 people in 2020, marking the first population decline ever recorded in the state and underscoring larger trends that recently led to the loss of a Congressional seat. California ...

SACRAMENTO — The nation's most populous state is shrinking. California's population declined again in 2021 for the second consecutive year, state officials said Monday, the result of a slowdown in ...

California’s years of major population growth have ended, and a state forecast suggests that the numbers might peak by as early as 2030 and then start to decline. At the turn of the century, when the ...