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Apr 10, 2024 · Discover North Carolina’s population & how it has changed over time. USAFacts uses Census data to break down the population of North Carolina by race, age, and more. View today.
The estimates of the total population for counties and places in Texas for July 1, 2022 and January 1, 2023 are completed by personnel from the Texas Demographic Center at The University of Texas at San Antonio. In this brief report, the methodology used to prepare the estimates is described.
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- Moving on the decline
The pandemic sparked a restlessness in American life, with many families opting to move in search of more space or a lower cost of living. That trend continued in 2022, with hundreds of thousands of people uprooting their lives and moving to new states.
But some regions are benefitting from an influx of new residents — a trend that can help those areas grow their economies and expand their tax bases — while others are witnessing a net loss of residents. About 25 U.S. states saw more people move within their boundaries last year, while about 25 states lost residents or were relatively flat, according to an analysis of census data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
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The states that are gaining residents share a few traits, said Nadia Evangelou, senior economist and director of real estate research at NAR. For one, many are states with job markets that grew faster than average during the pandemic. And secondly, they are also states where housing is more affordable and available than in parts of the country that lost residents.
The states that attracted the most new residents in 2022 are Florida, Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina, followed by other states in the South and West.
Despite the pandemic upheaval, the long-term trend of migration is slowing on a historical basis, according to the Brookings Institution. For instance, from 2021 to 2022, about 9% of Americans moved, ranging from local to long-range moves.
That's far lower than the roughly 20% of Americans who moved each year from the 1940s to 1960s — decades when more households were single-earner homes, making it easier to pick up and relocate versus double-earner households today.
Yet longer-distance migration has picked up in recent years, Brookings noted, which speaks to Americans finding new employment in different parts of the country.
Washington, D.C. also lost residents last year, the NAR analysis found. More than 3,600 residents moved out of the city in 2022.
There could be another reason why Southern and Western states drew more residents last year: Low taxes, according to the Tax Foundation. Some high-tax states, like California and New York, lost residents in 2022.
Florida was the biggest net gainer last year, with about 319,000 people migrating into the state, the NAR analysis found. California lost the most residents, with 343,000 leaving the state for other regions.
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Jul 21, 2023 · As of 2022, the fastest-growing states in the U.S. are Montana, Arizona, Idaho, Utah, South Carolina, and Texas. States with shrinking populations include California, Illinois, New York, and the District of Columbia.
Jan 8, 2023 · A Flourish chart. The new estimates show Texas added almost 475,000 new residents between July 1, 2021 and the same date in 2022. That’s more than any other state. Florida’s population also...
Dec 19, 2023 · As of July 1, 2023, an estimated 30,503,301 people reside in Texas, making the state second only to California, which has just under 39 million residents.
Florida (318,855), Texas (230,961), and the Carolinas – North Carolina (99,796) and South Carolina (84,030) – were the states with the most net domestic migration gains in 2022. Positive net domestic migration and positive net international migration significantly boosted population growth in these areas.
