Florida’s population surpassed 23 million for the first time this year, thanks to an influx of people from other states.
According to estimates released this month by the state’s Demographic Estimating Conference, the Sunshine State’s population was 23,002,597 as of April 1 of this year.
It is the third most populous state in the US, after California (39.5 million inhabitants) and Texas (30.5 million inhabitants).
Last year, Florida added nearly 359,000 people, and estimates suggest the population will grow by 350,000 to 375,000 each year this decade.
Population growth is estimated to peak this year and then decline annually for the remainder of the 2020s as the last batch of retiring baby boomers grows smaller.
Florida’s population surpassed 23 million for the first time this year, thanks to an influx of people from other states. (Pictured: An aerial view of Cape Coral, Florida)
Florida is the third most populous state in the U.S., after California (39.5 million people) and Texas (30.5 million people). (Pictured: A worker helps build a new home in Miami, Florida, on September 22, 2023.)
By the early 2030s, Florida’s growth will be below 1 percent, up from 1.6 percent expected this year.
Since shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Florida’s entire growth has been due to people moving to the Sunshine State from other parts of the United States or overseas.
Since late 2019 and early 2020, Florida has seen deaths exceed births, a trend expected to continue well into the next decade.
Nearly 10 percent of Florida residents are 75 or older, making Florida the second largest U.S. state and territory after Puerto Rico.
Other Republican southern states also saw large population gains in 2023, while losses in liberal northern states were offset by an influx of migrants.
The country’s population grew by 1.6 million last year, bringing the total number of inhabitants to 334.9 million.
Growth was driven largely by Southern states, with 87 percent of the increase coming from Texas, Florida and South Carolina alone, new figures show. Census Bureau numbers.
The country’s population grew by 1.6 million last year, bringing the country’s total to 334.9 million. The growth was driven primarily by the southern states
The nation’s population growth was driven largely by the Southern states, with 87 percent of the increase coming from Texas, Florida and South Carolina alone, according to new figures from the Census Bureau
Amid the migrant crisis at the border, Texas saw the nation’s largest increase between July 2022 and July 2023, adding nearly half a million new residents.
After the Lone Star State came Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee. Other states in the country also emigrated.
“The growth in 2023 can largely be attributed to migration patterns in the region, with net domestic migration adding 706,266 people, while net international migration added almost 500,000 people to the total,” the report said.
In eight states, including New York, California and Illinois, populations declined as many people fled liberal cities because of high taxes and the high cost of living.
In just one year, California lost 338,371 residents to other states, while New York state lost 216,778 and Illinois lost 83,839.
These losses are offset by the arrival of tens of thousands of new migrants who, after crossing the US-Mexico border, have headed north to cities like Chicago and New York.
However, the states still saw their overall populations decline due to the mass exodus of former residents to other states.