Calif. population growth slows to a trickle

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-- Teresa Watanabe

California's population grew less than 1% in the last year, the slowest growth rate in more than a decade as migration to the state barely kept up with the significant number of people leaving, according to state Department of Finance data released today.

Across the state, natural increases rather than migration accounted for the largest source of population growth. Los Angeles County, for instance, lost more people than it gained through migration but grew slightly to 10.4 million people from July 2008 to July 2009 because births outstripped deaths.

Los Angeles County gained 89,361 people through natural increases (147,319 births minus 57,958 deaths) but lost a net 21,736 people through migration.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009...n-a-decade.html

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Most of the smart folks in California who had the opportunity sold their homes before the housing collapse and could find far cheaper housing. Of course if they only made it made to Nevada or Arizona they got burned, too.