For the past few years, “everyone is leaving California” has been treated like a fact. Repeated in headlines, politics, and dinner-table talk. The story was simple and dramatic: taxes too high, ...

California's population trickled upward by just 0.05 percent from 2024 to 2025, as Los Angeles lost population due to decreased international migration and the January fires.

Much has been made of the California exodus in the past five years, even as the outflow of California residents has greatly slowed. But people do leave every year, and a large portion of those exiting ...