Share
Source: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File
For the first time in the state's history, California will be losing a Congressional seat, according to the 2020 Census data released late last month, which Spencer reported on. The news from Friday now looks to California's own data, from the California Department of Finance, which estimated the state lost 0.46 percent of its population last year.
The population loss is the first the state has measured as an annual decline in the decades it has been tracking annual population data. In 2019, state demographers had estimated a population increase of 0.2 percent, or 87,494 people.
But in 2020, California saw a net loss of 182,083 people and a net exodus of 310,918 people.