<p>The population of the State of California has declined for the second consecutive year, according to new data released by the state.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/may-2022-pop-release-1651514321.pdf">California Department of Finance</a> said in a report Monday that the state&#8217;s population declined by 117,552 residents in the year 2021, bringing the state’s total population to 39,185,605 people as of January 1, 2022. But that population decline of about 0.3% was also a significant slowdown from 2020, when the state population declined by about 0.59% between the April 2020 Census date and the end of the year, the Department of Finance said.</p>
<p>The report noted that much of the state&#8217;s &#8220;plateauing&#8221; population growth was due to a continuing slowdown in natural increase. &#8220;As Baby Boomers age, and fertility declines among younger cohorts, the continuing slowdown in natural increase — births minus deaths — underlies the plateauing of the state’s population growth,&#8221; the report said. Other factors included COVID-19 deaths, federal immigration restrictions, and residents migrating out-of-state.</p>
<p>The majority of California counties, 34 out of 58, lost population over the course of 2021. The largest decreases came from Plumas County, which lost 3.2% of its population, Lassen County, which lost 2.8%, and Butte County, which lost 2.4%. Notably, San Francisco County lost 0.8% of its population.</p>
<p>California&#8217;s three most populous counties also experienced losses: Los Angeles County lost 0.7% of its population, about 70,000 people; San Diego County lost about 1,200 residents, 0.04%; and Orange County lost about 7,300 people, 0.2%.</p>
<p>Only two counties, Yolo and San Benito, had population gains above 1%. The state reported that Yolo County&#8217;s gains were due to college dormitories, while San Benito&#8217;s were due to new housing. Most individual cities also lost population: 361 cities saw population declines, while 118 saw gains, and 3 saw no change.</p>
<p>Where population did increase, it was mostly in the interior part of the state. Population growth &#8220;remained strong in the interior counties of the Central Valley and the Inland Empire,&#8221; the report said, but every coastal county lost population except three: San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.</p>
<p>The report noted, however, that gains in those counties were at least partially due to college students returning to campus post-COVID-19. In fact, the state reported that California&#8217;s dormitory population declined by 45%, or about 109,000 people, during the pandemic. Dormitory population have since returned to 98.9% of 2020 Census levels, with about 240,000 students living in dormitories, &#8220;restor[ing] the populations in many college towns.&#8221;</p>
<p>“To a certain extent, we have two or three things happening here — the pandemic is there in the sense that natural increase, it really slowed down over these two years. Some of that is a lack of births because of delayed child-bearing decisions,” Department of Finance Chief Demographer Walter Schwarm told the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-02/california-population-decline-inland-empire-growing">Los Angeles Times</a>. “Things are getting a little better, fertility is coming back after the pandemic.”</p>
<p>California experienced the first population decline in the history of the state in 2020. The state&#8217;s population declined by 182,000 between 2020 and 2021, the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-health-immigration-coronavirus-pandemic-d4df0f6a2eef7a3dc4a6d27c65df7b84">Associated Press</a> reported at the time. The AP also reported at the time that California had been experiencing a net-negative migration in recent years, as more residents moved out of the state than in. That slowdown in growth also cost the state a seat in the House of Representatives, also a first. California&#8217;s population currently sits at just over 39 million people.</p>

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