Southern state reaches all-time population high after gaining over 350K residents in every year for over a decade

Florida's organization crossed nan 23million residents people for nan first clip this twelvemonth owed to nan influx of group moving from different states.

As of April 1 of this year, nan Sunshine State had 23,002,597 residents, according to estimates released this period by nan authorities Demographic Estimating Conference.

It is nan 3rd astir populous authorities successful nan US, trailing only California's 39.5 cardinal residents and Texas' 30.5 cardinal inhabitants. 

Florida added almost 359,000 group past twelvemonth and has been adding astir 350,000 to 375,000 group each twelvemonth this decade, according to nan estimates.

The organization maturation is expected to highest this twelvemonth and get smaller pinch each pursuing twelvemonth for nan remainder of nan 2020s arsenic nan last cohort of babe boomers entering status gets smaller, according to nan estimates.

By nan early 2030s, Florida's maturation complaint will beryllium nether 1 percent aft hitting an expected 1.6% this year.

Since a small spot earlier nan commencement of nan COVID-19 pandemic successful early 2020, each of Florida's maturation has travel from group moving to nan Sunshine State from different parts of nan United States aliases abroad. 

Deaths person outpaced births successful Florida since precocious 2019 and early 2020, and that inclination is predicted to proceed good into nan adjacent decade.

Almost 10 percent of Florida's residents are property 75 and older, 2nd only to Puerto Rico among US states and nan territory.

Other Republican confederate states besides saw awesome organization booms complete 2023, while bluish wide states saw their losses offset by an influx of migrants. 

The country's organization grew by 1.6million complete nan past year, bringing nan nation's full to 334.9 million. 

The maturation was mostly driven by confederate states, pinch 87 percent of nan summation coming from conscionable Texas, Florida and South Carolina, according to new Census Bureau numbers.

Amid nan migrant situation astatine nan border, Texas saw nan biggest summation nationwide betwixt July 2022 and July 2023, pinch astir half a cardinal caller residents. 

The Lone Star authorities was followed by Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee, which besides saw outmigration from different states successful nan country.

'The maturation successful 2023 tin mostly beryllium attributed to nan region's migration patterns arsenic 706,266 group were added via nett home migration, while nett world migration contributed almost 500,000 to nan total,' nan study explained.

Eight states, including New York, California and Illinois, saw populations decline, arsenic galore person fled wide cities because of precocious taxes and cost of living.

In conscionable 1 year, California lost 338,371 residents to different states, while New York authorities lost 216,778 and Illinois 83,839.

Those losses person been offset by caller tens of thousands of caller migrants who person moved northbound aft crossing nan US-Mexico separator to cities for illustration Chicago and NYC.

However, nan states still saw their wide populations diminution owed to nan monolithic exodus of erstwhile residents to different states.