Population drain: SCC losing 32K residents/yr on avg

SF Standard’s Maryann Jones Thompson reports on the latest data about 2020–2022 population losses in Bay Area counties. Second only to SF County (which boasts a -7.5% change), Santa Clara County has seen 3.4% of its residents make a quick getaway post-2020—as Texas areas continue gaining, some counties even by 10–18%.

San Francisco and the Bay Area continued their population declines in 2022, according to Census data released Thursday, but not at the clip witnessed during the first year of the pandemic. 

Though the first 2022 state and national data came out in December, the new county figures provide the first look at how the nine counties of the Bay Area gained—or lost—population compared to other large counties around the country. 

The bottom line? Though rates of decline in the population of large U.S. counties leveled off from those seen during the first year of the pandemic, San Francisco and the Bay Area continue to shrink from their pre-Covid populations, while other counties have expanded.

This article originally appeared in the San Francisco Standard. Read the whole thing here.

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