SACRAMENTO, Calif.
The state four most populated cities — Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco — lost a combined 88,000 people.
That changed in 2020.
California had a negative international migration in 2020, which state officials say was a direct impact from the Trump administration’s decision to stop issuing new visas for much of that year.
In all, 51 of the state’s 58 counties posted death rates above the three-year average — including 12 that had increases of 20% or more.
“As the pandemic recedes and with changes in federal immigration policy, we expect to return to more normal immigration trends into California from other countries,” said H.D.
From 2010 to 2020, about 6.1 million people left California for other states compared to about 4.9 million people who moved to California from other states, according to an analysis of census data by the Public Policy Institute of California.