FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
SLO County’s population is dropping as more people flee the area, numbers show [The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, Calif.)]
Dec. 18—California’s historically strong population growth has ground to a near halt, new data show, as far more people moved to other states than moved here from elsewhere in the United States.
The birth rate also continued to drop and older baby boomers passed away, some due to COVID-19.
San Luis Obispo County’s own growth seems to be stagnating, with 2020 marking the second year in a row that the population declined.
According to data from the state Department of Finance demographics unit, is is only the fourth time since record-keeping began in the 1940s that San Luis Obispo County’s population has dropped — and three of those drops have occurred in the past decade.