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California continued to lose large numbers of people to other states in 2019, showing a net loss of about 173,000 residents in the state-to-state migration estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday. The loss is a slight improvement from the 190,122 net loss of residents California experienced in 2018, according to estimates from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
California gained about 93,000 residents in 2019 and about 98,000 in 2018 when factoring in foreign immigration and movement to and from Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories. Texas, with no state personal income tax, continues to be the big winner when it comes to Californians moving out of state, with more than 82,000 California residents telling the Census Bureau in 2019 that they had moved to the Lone Star State in the prior 12 months. Second place went to Arizona, where almost 60,000 Californians moved in 2019.
The Bay Area has also seen an exodus of corporate headquarters , often heading to Texas, in recent years. This year’s migration data could be the relative calm before the storm, as anecdotal evidence suggests an acceleration of out-migration from California amid Covid as several major Bay Area employers have […]
