300,000 People Moved Out of California from 2021 to 2022, Most of Any State

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JOEL B. POLLAK

23 Dec 2022171

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The U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday that 300,000 people left California in 2022, more than left any other state, amid a general slow increase in the U.S. population as the country recovered from COVID-19.

The estimates cover the period from July 2021 to July 2022.

It was the third consecutive annual decline for California, the Sacramento Bee noted, though births outnumbered deaths.