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Florida population tops 23 million, still 3rd in US

Florida population tops 23 million, still 3rd in US

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Florida’s population surpassed 23 million for the first time this year, according to a report released Friday by the state’s Demographic Estimating Conference, largely because of people moving here from other states. But that’s starting to slow.

As of April 1, the Sunshine State had 23,002,597 residents, the report said, solidifying our position as the third-most populous state behind California (39.5 million) and Texas (30.5 million). Last year’s estimates were revised upward after fewer than expected births and deaths, the report said.

That’s an increase of about 15% since we first hit 20 million in 2015.

However, Florida’s death rate still exceeds its birth rate and population growth is expected to slow, the report said.

How fast is Florida’s population growing?

According to the report, the state has added 300,000 to 380,000 residents over the past 10 years, reaching 358,735 in 2023, an increase of 1.62 percent.

Over the next five years, Florida’s population growth is expected to slow, averaging 319,019 new residents per year, net, or 874 per day. By the time another decade is out, Florida’s population growth is expected to be just 0.85 percent.

“These increases are comparable to adding a city slightly smaller than Orlando but larger than St. Petersburg each year,” the report said.

Florida is among the states with the lowest percentage of people moving to another state. However, the Census Bureau reported that 51,380 people crossed the border to live in Georgia in 2022 and 41,747 Florida residents moved to Texas.

The research was part of a long-term projection by the Bureau of Economic and Business Research.

In 2022, the Census Bureau declared Florida the fastest-growing state in the country for the first time since 1957. However, after the state’s peak growth during the COVID years, growth has slowed.

Data shows Florida added 365,205 new residents in 2023, still the second-largest numerical growth after Texas and the second-largest percentage growth after South Carolina.

This year, the U.S. Census Bureau said that four of the five fastest-growing metro areas in the country, as a percentage, were in Florida (The Villages was No. 1), with Polk, Pasco and Marion counties named as three of the fastest-growing counties in the country. And one study found that middle-class millennials were the most eager to move here, with more than half a million people moving here in 2022 from New York alone.

Immigration also played a role.

“Just as net international migration has boosted the country’s population growth, so too has most states,” said demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institution. “Some of the biggest gains have been in the high-immigration states of Florida, California and Texas, with New York showing only modest declines from already high levels.”

In 2019, more than 4 million immigrants lived in Florida, according to a 2020 Pew Research Center study. And immigrants tend to be younger, of childbearing age, or with young families.

“Nationally, immigration is kind of the key to growing the younger population,” Frey told The Hill.

Where do Florida’s new residents come from?

According to the latest migration figures, of the 267,030 people who moved here from another state in 2022, most of the new residents came from these states:

  1. New York: 91.201
  2. California: 50,701
  3. Georgia: 39,950
  4. Texas: 38,207
  5. Pennsylvania: 35,384
  6. Illinois: 35,262
  7. North Carolina: 24,601
  8. Maryland: 23,422
  9. Michigan: 23,781
  10. Colorado: 20,980

However, the Census Bureau estimates that 489,904 people left Florida that same year.

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