I love the Northeast but it’s so fucking expensive and if you don’t build housing, this is what you get.
SenecatheEldest on
Air conditioning and cheaper housing and land.
Shurubles on
That’s very interesting. As a non-American, would anyone care to oversimplify the reasons to me?
I kinda imagine that NE migration was/is due to HCOL/taxes (by taxes I mean both on a personal and business level), same deal with the recent CA exodus. South should be more attractive on both those categories, so it would explain the population gain. If that’s correct, what would explain the Midwest exodus? Industries closing/moving?
allophonous-rex on
“California exodus” population declined 0.9% from 2020-2022 and grew only 1% in 2024. So relatively flat and slight contraction during the pandemic but not the hyperbole some news media report.
twistthespine on
What would these trends look like if based on raw numbers rather than percentages? Our population has grown so much that I imagine many of the „declines“ would look more like modest increases.
mistephe on
I really wish they’d divide the west a bit more effectively. Beyond California’s population dominating statistics like this, there are fairly drastic cultural and geographic differences in such a massive area.
lambertb on
They’ll all be back when they realize that water is the true source of wealth.
MyCoolName_ on
Nice graph. One needs to keep in mind it represents percentages rather than absolute populations, which I believe have continued increasing in all regions. A compact alternative visualization is the movement of the center of the US population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_the_United_States_population
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Thanks for nothing, air conditioning.
I love the Northeast but it’s so fucking expensive and if you don’t build housing, this is what you get.
Air conditioning and cheaper housing and land.
That’s very interesting. As a non-American, would anyone care to oversimplify the reasons to me?
I kinda imagine that NE migration was/is due to HCOL/taxes (by taxes I mean both on a personal and business level), same deal with the recent CA exodus. South should be more attractive on both those categories, so it would explain the population gain. If that’s correct, what would explain the Midwest exodus? Industries closing/moving?
“California exodus” population declined 0.9% from 2020-2022 and grew only 1% in 2024. So relatively flat and slight contraction during the pandemic but not the hyperbole some news media report.
What would these trends look like if based on raw numbers rather than percentages? Our population has grown so much that I imagine many of the „declines“ would look more like modest increases.
I really wish they’d divide the west a bit more effectively. Beyond California’s population dominating statistics like this, there are fairly drastic cultural and geographic differences in such a massive area.
They’ll all be back when they realize that water is the true source of wealth.
Nice graph. One needs to keep in mind it represents percentages rather than absolute populations, which I believe have continued increasing in all regions. A compact alternative visualization is the movement of the center of the US population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_the_United_States_population