Officially, California added 21,200 people from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2020, increasing the state's population a paltry 0.05% to 39.78 million people — still by far the most of any state.

UPDATED: May 31, 2023 at 11:45 AM PDT The top-line number was eye-opening: About 725,000 people moved out of California in 2020 to set up new lives in one of the 49 other states or Washington, D.C.

Every one of California’s 58 counties has seen fewer people moving in from out of state since the end of March 2020, while the number of people leaving the state has also gone up.

In the past decade, California has experienced its slowest population rate increase, with only a 6% growth rate from 2010 to 2020. “Since 2010, about 7.5 million people moved from California to ...

, Calif. — Who's leaving California and who's moving in? The nonprofit, nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California is out with research addressing those questions based on the 2020 census.

Between 2016 and the start of the pandemic, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara were the only three California counties that received more people from other U.S. states than they sent to ...

McKesson, Chevron, and Tesla are among the biggest companies to leave California in recent years.

California added 141,300 residents between July 2018 and July 2019, bringing the state population to an estimated 39.96 million people, according to the California Department of Finance.

Officially, California added 21,200 people from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2020, increasing the state's population a paltry 0.05% to 39.78 million people — still by far the most of any state.