California and New York continue to shed residents as new Census Bureau data shows that each state has lost more than 500,000 residents since July 2020.

As rents continue to climb to sky-high levels in Manhattan and the other five-boroughs, and crime surges are nowhere near ending, one-time New York residents are leaving in droves.

The state has lost more than 523,000 residents since April of 2020. Its population fell from 20,201,230 to 19,677,151 – and that figure is just the record through July 2022.

New York and California have each lost more than half a million people since 2020

New York and California have each lost more than half a million people since 2020

Crime in New York has increased dramatically since 2020 as homeless spikes and the city continues to be governed by bail laws that allow criminals out of custody shortly after arrest

Crime in New York has increased dramatically since 2020 as homeless spikes and the city continues to be governed by bail laws that allow criminals out of custody shortly after arrest

In California, where the weather is mostly warm, but once-a-year massive wildfires and treacherous mudslides threaten homes, the population has also dipped by slightly more than half-a-million since 2020.

Deputy director of external affairs at the California Department of Finance H.D. Palmer told the Sacramento Bee that the shrinking population of the Golden State is a reflection of its ongoing housing affordability crisis.

‘If you talk to demographers, they’ll say that one of the factors is the cost of housing. And that’s continued to be a challenging issue for the state,’ he said.

According to the Bee, in Sacramento – where the median household income in 2021 was $71,047 – it requires a household salary of around $145,000 to afford the median-priced house in the region.

In New York, where crime and rents are surging, the mass exodus continues.

In January of 2020, New York State introduced sweeping criminal justice legislation that eliminated cash bail for the majority of misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, including robberies.

New York, where the average rent is now more than $5,200 a month, lost more residents than any other state between April 1, 2020 and July 1, 2021, many of whom fled a staunch set of pandemic restrictions and high taxes for friendlier business environments, according to MarketWatch.

New York and California’s significant decreases arrive as the Census Bureau recorded a ‘sizeable uptick in population growth last year compared to the prior year’s historically low increase,’ according to demographic Kristie Wilder.

America’s population grew by 0.4 percent – but it’s not due solely to more births than deaths. 

‘There was a sizeable uptick in population growth last year compared to the prior year’s historically low increase,’ Kristie Wilder, a demographer with the Census Bureau, said in a news release.

‘A rebound in net international migration, coupled with the largest year-over-year increase in total births since 2007, is behind this increase,’ she added. 

Historic rates of homelessness in California appear to be baffling to state and local governments as massive encampments continue to pop up in public places, including nearby elementary and middle schools

Historic rates of homelessness in California appear to be baffling to state and local governments as massive encampments continue to pop up in public places, including nearby elementary and middle schools

Rent prices in Manhattan reached unfathomable new heights in 2022, forcing many concrete-jungle prices to hand over egregious sums each month for less than lavish digs

Rent prices in Manhattan reached unfathomable new heights in 2022, forcing many concrete-jungle prices to hand over egregious sums each month for less than lavish digs

Florida and Texas continue to see the most population growth of any US states.

The Lone Star state has gained close to 900,000 new Texans since 2020 and Florida has just over 700,000 new official residents – a population increase of nearly 2 percent.

Texas crossed the 30-million-population threshold in 2022 and as such has joined California as the only state with a resident population of more than 30 mil.

Wilder noted that while Florida ‘has often been among the largest-gaining states, this was the first time since 1957 that Florida has been the state with the largest percent increase in population.’ 

Manhattan's posh and tourist packed neighborhoods have increasingly become hotbeds for crime - where brazen thieves are leaving shopkeepers feeling powerless

Manhattan’s posh and tourist packed neighborhoods have increasingly become hotbeds for crime – where brazen thieves are leaving shopkeepers feeling powerless

The grand larceny crisis has become so bad that Mayor Eric Adams held a summit with business leaders at Gracie Mansion earlier this month

The grand larceny crisis has become so bad that Mayor Eric Adams held a summit with business leaders at Gracie Mansion earlier this month

The streets of San Francisco - some of the most expensive in the country for taxpayers - remain littered with human feces and drug needles

The streets of San Francisco – some of the most expensive in the country for taxpayers – remain littered with human feces and drug needles 

Crime in Manhattan surged 23.5 percent in 2022 as robberies, rapes and felony assaults all climbed – though murders and shootings both decreased by double digits.

Grand larceny – or thefts of more than $1,000 – spiked more than 60 percent in New York City this year. 

The issue has become so significant that Mayor Eric Adams held a meeting with business leaders at Gracie Mansion earlier this month to address it – though a solution remains far from tangible as the city heads into the New Year.



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