Watching demographic changes as we live them in California
California's population inches up
DEMOGRAPHICS
December 07, 2011|Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Sacramento
California's population grew at a slow rate over the past year as people left for other states and as the birth rate declined, the California Department of Finance reported Tuesday.
Overall, the state's population grew by 0.7 percent to a total of 37.5 million people between July 2010 and July 2011. It was the seventh year in a row that the population grew by less than 1 percent, the longest such period of slow growth according to records dating back to 1900.
Demographers with the department said most of the people who left the state were low-income earners. They expect the trend to level off once unemployment in California subsides, though no specific industry has emerged to create a boom that will help lead the state out of its downturn.
"During this recession, we're just not finding that one item that's going to generate jobs again," said John Malson, acting chief of the demographic research unit that created the Finance Department report.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-12-07/bay-area/30484808_1_population-growth-john-malson-state-demographers
In the book The Grapes of Wrath California was the promised land and the migration West of the Okies during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma changed the demographics in California. Now the opposite is happening. The migrant and low income labor are leaving the state.
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