LOS ANGELES COUNTY (KNX) – Los Angeles County lost 179,757 residents during the first full year of the pandemic, according to data by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday.
The report focused on population changes in counties across the U.S. in 2021 and how births, mortality, and COVID-19 played a role. It also looked into how many people moved in and out of these areas.
Overall, the U.S. Census Bureau said over 73 percent of U.S. Counties had a "natural decrease."
In the report, the U.S. Census Bureau found L.A. County had the largest population decrease of any county in the U.S. by losing almost 160,000 residents in 2021.
It was also revealed population declines were more frequent in California, as there were more people moving out of the state than there people moving in.
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim were apart of the areas that had some of the "largest metropolitan net domestic migration losses."
It also found that Riverside County had a “positive domestic migration” (more people moving in).
“The patterns we’ve observed in domestic migration shifted in 2021,” Dr. Christine Hartley, assistant division chief for estimates and projections in the Census Bureau’s Population Division, said.
“Even though over time we’ve seen a higher number of counties with natural decrease and net international migration continuing to decline, in the past year, the contribution of domestic migration counteracted these trends so there were actually more counties growing than losing population,” Hartley added.
You can read the full report here.
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