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America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
Two Years Into Pandemic, Domestic Migration Trends Shifted
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the U.S. population in many ways, including births, deaths and international migration. One of its more intriguing impacts was on domestic migration patterns.
Some longstanding trends accelerated, such as outmigration from large urban areas in the Northeast, while other trends reversed, resulting in some small rural counties gaining rather than losing population.
Today?s release of Vintage 2022 population estimates provides a snapshot of changes in domestic migration during the first years of the pandemic.
Note that we include the change in the nation?s group quarters (GQ) population in the estimates? net domestic migration component. But we excluded it from this analysis (due to the volatility of this population during the pandemic) to focus only on household population movement.
Continue reading?to learn more about:
- Migration pre-pandemic
- Fast forward to 2021-2022
- Visualizing the patterns
Texas Population Passes the 30-Million Mark in 2022
Texas is now one of only two states with a population of 30 million or more. Its population reached 30,029,572 in 2022, behind only California (39,029,342).
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