California Exodus Is Really Only Happening From San Francisco
Discussion of a mass exodus of Californians has been floating through the news since the earliest months of the coronavirus pandemic, but it has been less of a flight from the state and more of a reshuffling within the state, a new report shows.
“While a mass exodus from California clearly didn’t happen in 2020, the pandemic did change some historical patterns, for example, fewer people moved into the state to replace those who left,” California Policy Lab Research Fellow and report author Natalie Holmes said in a statement.
The number of people leaving California historically lines up roughly with the number of people entering, but this changed in the final quarter of 2020, the report found. At that time, 267,000 people left the state and only 128,000 people arrived.