Net domestic migration: California and LA County (Census)
yr to Jul 2012 California (Vintage 2020) -41.3 thousand people Estimate California yr to Jul 2013 California (Vintage 2020) -53.39 thousand people Estimate California yr to Jul 2014 California (Vintage 2020) -46.41 thousand people Estimate California yr to Jul 2015 California (Vintage 2020) -80.12 thousand people Estimate California yr to Jul 2016 California (Vintage 2020) -122.22 thousand people Estimate California yr to Jul 2017 California (Vintage 2020) -138.21 thousand people Estimate California yr to Jul 2018 California (Vintage 2020) -160.19 thousand people Estimate California yr to Jul 2019 California (Vintage 2020) -208.41 thousand people Estimate California yr to Jul 2020 California (Vintage 2020) -242.31 thousand people Estimate California yr to Jul 2021 California (Vintage 2025) -470.76 thousand people Estimate California yr to Jul 2022 California (Vintage 2025) -344.13 thousand people Estimate California yr to Jul 2023 California (Vintage 2025) -343.89 thousand people Estimate California yr to Jul 2024 California (Vintage 2025) -241.61 thousand people Estimate California yr to Jul 2025 California (Vintage 2025) -229.08 thousand people Estimate California Net domestic migration of people. Los Angeles County is a separate geography and is not folded into the state total.
Where this sits in the reading
Position versus 2017–19 is descriptive. “Within range” doesn’t mean acceptable — 2017–19 may itself have been strained.
What this is
Thousands of people. Vintage break at 2020: the two estimate series are drawn separately and not joined.
- Unit
- people per year (thousands)
- Frequency
- Annual (July-June)
- Geography
- California; LA County
- Coverage
- From 1 Jul 2012 · latest observation 1 Jul 2025
- Release
- Annual: states December, counties March
- Typical lag
- ~6-9 months
- Source
- Census population estimates · www.census.gov ↗
- Vintage
- Vintage 2020 · Vintage 2025
- Pipeline
- automated download
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