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The states losing people

Population change since 2020.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

Census Population Estimates, comparing the latest year against the April 2020 census base. The whole series is retabulated onto one set of boundaries each vintage, so the two ends of the comparison are always the same geography — which is why Connecticut's planning regions have a figure here. Growth counts arrivals, births and deaths together; net migration rate separates out the moving part.

  1. 1Hawaii-1.5%
  2. 2West Virginia-1.5%
  3. 3New York-1.0%
  4. 4Louisiana-0.9%
  5. 5Illinois-0.8%
  6. 6California-0.5%
  7. 7Mississippi-0.2%
  8. 8Vermont+0.2%
  9. 9New Mexico+0.4%
  10. 10Pennsylvania+0.4%
  11. 11Alaska+0.5%
  12. 12Michigan+0.5%
  13. 13District of Columbia+0.6%
  14. 14Ohio+0.9%
  15. 15Oregon+0.9%
  16. 16Kansas+1.3%
  17. 17Wisconsin+1.3%
  18. 18Maryland+1.4%
  19. 19Iowa+1.5%
  20. 20Rhode Island+1.6%
  21. 21Massachusetts+1.7%
  22. 22Missouri+1.9%
  23. 23Wyoming+2.1%
  24. 24Connecticut+2.2%
  25. 25Kentucky+2.2%
  26. 26Minnesota+2.2%
  27. 27North Dakota+2.6%
  28. 28New Hampshire+2.7%
  29. 29Indiana+2.8%
  30. 30New Jersey+2.8%
  31. 31Nebraska+2.9%
  32. 32Virginia+2.9%
  33. 33Alabama+3.3%
  34. 34Arkansas+3.4%
  35. 35Maine+3.8%
  36. 36Washington+3.8%
  37. 37Colorado+4.1%
  38. 38Oklahoma+4.1%
  39. 39Georgia+5.5%
  40. 40South Dakota+5.5%
  41. 41Montana+5.6%
  42. 42Nevada+5.7%
  43. 43Tennessee+5.8%
  44. 44Arizona+6.5%
  45. 45Delaware+7.1%
  46. 46North Carolina+7.2%
  47. 47Utah+8.2%
  48. 48South Carolina+8.8%
  49. 49Texas+8.8%
  50. 50Florida+8.9%
  51. 51Idaho+10.4%
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. · How this is built