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Population growth slowed in a majority of the nation’s counties
Posted on 3/30/26 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 3/30/26 at 12:37 pm
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MARCH 26, 2026 – Population growth slowed in a majority of the nation’s 3,143 counties and the District of Columbia between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, according to the Vintage 2025 population estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Among the 2,066 counties that grew between 2023 and 2024, nearly 8 in 10 saw their growth slow or reverse direction in 2025. In many cases, counties already in decline saw losses accelerate.
Meanwhile, 310 of the 387 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (metro areas) had slower growth between 2024 and 2025 than during the prior year. The three metro areas with the steepest percentage point declines in population growth rates were along the U.S.-Mexico border: Laredo, TX (from 3.2% in 2023-2024 to 0.2% from 2024 to 2025); Yuma, AZ (3.3% to 1.4%); and El Centro, CA (1.2% to -0.7%).
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Key Takeaways
Geographically, many of the fastest-growing counties were in states along the southeast coast of the United States in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.
Among some of the largest metro areas, the fastest-growing counties tended to be on the outer edges, a pattern especially pronounced in Texas.
Among counties with populations of 20,000 or more, nine of the top 10 fastest-growing counties were in the South, as were 45 out of the top 50.
Growth declined dramatically in metro areas — on average from 1.1% between 2023 and 2024 to 0.6% between 2024 and 2025.
This shift was largely due to NIM reductions, especially since net domestic migration losses waned and natural increase had no noticeable change.
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Posted on 3/30/26 at 12:44 pm to RLDSC FAN
Make things unaffordable to raise a child which makes your wife work full time just to get by and not raise your child how youd like, import the third world to replace you ethnically and for much cheaper labor, and finally implement a culture that disregards marriage under God completely and make dating so unbearable for both sides that there is rampant degeneracy.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 12:52 pm to TheGeauxt9
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Make things unaffordable to raise a child which makes your wife work full time just to get by and not raise your child how youd like, import the third world to replace you ethnically and for much cheaper labor, and finally implement a culture that disregards marriage under God completely and make dating so unbearable for both sides that there is rampant degeneracy.
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This shift was largely due to NIM reductions, especially since net domestic migration losses waned and natural increase had no noticeable change.
NIM = Net International Migration
the population growth decline is due to less immigrants
everything else stayed roughly the same
Posted on 3/30/26 at 1:01 pm to RLDSC FAN
Life is unaffordable. Places need reasonable costs of living AND a robust job market to grow, and it has to be steady.....not a boom and bust situation to be sustainable.
People are moving to where the jobs are and concentrating in some areas.
So not only are most counties seeing a net outmigration, the birth rate is too low to even sustain what they have. That's a map to a public sector fiscal cliff.
Definitely alarming. I'm seeing places get stagnant that I never thought would get stagnant in my lifetime. A lot of that is because the costs of living there are just too damn high.
People are moving to where the jobs are and concentrating in some areas.
So not only are most counties seeing a net outmigration, the birth rate is too low to even sustain what they have. That's a map to a public sector fiscal cliff.
Definitely alarming. I'm seeing places get stagnant that I never thought would get stagnant in my lifetime. A lot of that is because the costs of living there are just too damn high.
This post was edited on 3/30/26 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 3/30/26 at 1:05 pm to goofball
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People are moving to where the jobs are and concentrating in some areas.
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Definitely alarming
But why? This is how it has been for centuries.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 1:11 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Among counties with populations of 20,000 or more, nine of the top 10 fastest-growing counties were in the South, as were 45 out of the top 50.
I guess that’s why every other southern state was on the list except Louisiana. They only included counties, not parishes.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 1:33 pm to goofball
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Places need reasonable costs of living AND a robust job market to grow, and it has to be steady
We had the perfect opportunity to expand and create new smaller towns after covid when remote work became possible. Ball was dropped big time.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 1:39 pm to goofball
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People are moving to where the jobs are and concentrating in some areas.
I did this. Wish I could of stayed in my hometown in Louisiana but the economy was slow and I didn't have parents who were well connected.
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Definitely alarming. I'm seeing places get stagnant that I never thought would get stagnant in my lifetime. A lot of that is because the costs of living there are just too damn high.
Most if this is self inflicted with bad economic policy. No conspiracy theories. Modern Monetary Theory, nimbyism, globalism, deregulation, etc
Posted on 3/30/26 at 2:10 pm to goofball
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Life is unaffordable. Places need reasonable costs of living AND a robust job market to grow, and it has to be steady.....not a boom and bust situation to be sustainable. People are moving to where the jobs are and concentrating in some areas.
You completely missed the point.
The change was in international immigration. Everything else remained roughly the same.
What changed? Tougher border enforcement.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 2:12 pm to RLDSC FAN
Not suprisingly to me at all. Everybody was piping all day when they were home for Covid. 9 months after, they all had kids and aren’t ready for a second round.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 3:57 pm to RLDSC FAN
Lock borders
Flat job market
More deaths than births
5-year inflation has compounded costs to raise children
Sex toys now sold at Walgreens
Did we expect a different outcome?
Flat job market
More deaths than births
5-year inflation has compounded costs to raise children
Sex toys now sold at Walgreens
Did we expect a different outcome?
This post was edited on 3/30/26 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 3/30/26 at 4:07 pm to RLDSC FAN
It is so expensive to do anything now that if i were younger, i honestly don’t know if i would even have kids
$100,000 isn’t even that much money anymore with the cost of everything now days
$100,000 isn’t even that much money anymore with the cost of everything now days
Posted on 3/30/26 at 4:09 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
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Lock borders
Flat job market
More deaths than births
5-year inflation has compounded costs to raise children
Sex toys now sold at Walgreens
Did we expect a different outcome?
yeah, seems pretty obvious.
We've known we aren't having enough children to sustain population growth for a while now.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 4:14 pm to RLDSC FAN
Posted on 3/31/26 at 8:20 pm to DesScorp
Huntsville, AL was the 6th fastest growing metro in the country from 2024 to 2025
Alabama has two of the 25 fastest growing metro areas by percentage growth from 2020 to 2025:
9) Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL- 15.53%
19) Huntsville, AL - 13.16%
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Alabama has two of the 25 fastest growing metro areas by percentage growth from 2020 to 2025:
9) Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL- 15.53%
19) Huntsville, AL - 13.16%
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This post was edited on 3/31/26 at 8:35 pm
Posted on 3/31/26 at 8:22 pm to goofball
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People are moving to where the jobs are and concentrating in some areas.
So exactly how our large cities were formed?
Posted on 3/31/26 at 8:29 pm to DesScorp
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Los Angeles County lost 54K last year, more than any other county.
Doesn’t make sense.
Posted on 3/31/26 at 8:53 pm to DesScorp
Cost of living?
according to this Miami is #2 behind LA, probably the same reason
The Miami metropolitan area saw the nation’s highest share of population loss due to domestic out-migration — about 1.8% of its total population — between July 2024 and July 2025, according to new census data.
Researchers have cited a situation familiar to Californians: Miami has one of the country’s worst housing markets when it comes to affordability. The University of Florida found nearly half of Miami-Dade County households are cost-burdened, or paying more than 30% of their incomes on rent. For those households making less than $75,000 per year, three-quarters are cost-burdened.
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according to this Miami is #2 behind LA, probably the same reason
The Miami metropolitan area saw the nation’s highest share of population loss due to domestic out-migration — about 1.8% of its total population — between July 2024 and July 2025, according to new census data.
Researchers have cited a situation familiar to Californians: Miami has one of the country’s worst housing markets when it comes to affordability. The University of Florida found nearly half of Miami-Dade County households are cost-burdened, or paying more than 30% of their incomes on rent. For those households making less than $75,000 per year, three-quarters are cost-burdened.
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