Since the pandemic began, more and more people have been leaving California to settle in other states.
This trend is no secret, but what is even more alarming is the drop in people moving to California from other states, which fell by 38% since the pandemic began, according to research conducted by the California Policy Lab published in December.
"The public's attention has been focused on the so-called 'CalExodus' phenomenon, but the reality is that the dramatic drop in 'CalEntrances' since the pandemic began has been a bigger driver of recent population changes in the state," said the report's co-author Natalie Holmes, a Research Fellow at the California Policy Lab in a press release.
The numbers have been particularly high in the Bay Area, with the highest change in migration rates to and from three Bay Area Counties.
San Francisco, Santa Clara, and San Mateo counties saw the rate of people moving there from out of state fall by 48-53% since the pandemic began, according to the report.
At the same time, people leaving the state from those counties increased by 34%, 26%, and 15%, respectively.
In the state overall, the rate of people leaving has also increased 12% since before the pandemic.
While this particular trend has petered out somewhat in recent months, with fewer Californians planning to move out of state, San Francisco and San Mateo counties still have relatively high rates of people moving away.
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