NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – New York is number one… when it comes to states people are fleeing.
Approximately 76,790 residents cleared out of the state between July 2018 and July 2019, according to new census data released Monday. That’s a loss of 0.4 percent.
The state’s population now stands at 19,453,561—down from 19,530,351 in 2018, an analysis of the census data by the Empire Center shows. It’s still the fourth most populous state after California, Texas and Florida, which have populations of 39.5 million, 28.9 million and 21.4 million, respectively.
New York suffered the biggest population loss of any U.S. state. New Jersey and Connecticut also had net outflows but only about 4,000 each.
Illinois saw the second-largest population decline at 51,250, followed by West Virginia (12,144) and Louisiana (10,896). Connecticut was fifth at 6,233 and New Jersey was eighth at 3,835.
Florida, Texas and Arizona are on the receiving end of the exodus. Texas gained 367,000, while Florida gained 233,000 and Arizona gained 121,000. North Carolina was fourth at 106,469 new residents.
It’s even worse news for New York when looking at population lost through net domestic migration—the number of residents moving to other states (foreign immigrants usually help offset the state’s domestic migration exodus.)
The state was one of only three states that lost over 100,000 people to other states between 2018 and 2019.
Approximately 180,649 more residents moved out of the state between 2018 and 2019 than moved in. New York lost nearly 1.4 million residents to domestic migration between 2010 and 2019.