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How Many People Left California In 2024. In 2021 — when coronavirus cases were still surging and more people were working remotely — california lost a net 355,648 people because of domestic migration. In 2021 and 2022, more than 800,000 residents packed up and left california in each of those years for other parts of the country, according to the latest available census.

Its largest annual population increase was 0.9% between 2013 and 2014. From july 1, 2022, to july 1, 2023, 17 of california’s 58 counties experienced a population increase while the majority lost residents.