[Vision2020] Idaho is Nation’s Fastest-Growing State, Census Bureau Reports

Kenneth Marcy kmmos1 at frontier.com
Sat Dec 30 09:03:10 PST 2017


Idaho is Nation’s Fastest-Growing State, Census Bureau Reports

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/estimates-idaho.html


*DEC. 20, 2017 *— Idaho was the nation’s fastest-growing state over the
last year. Its population increased 2.2 percent to 1.7 million from July
1, 2016, to July 1, 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s national
and state population estimates
<https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest.html> released today.

Following Idaho for the largest percentage increases in population
<https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2010-2017/state/totals/nst-est2017-03.xlsx>
were: Nevada (2.0 percent), Utah (1.9 percent), Washington (1.7
percent), and Florida along with Arizona (1.6 percent).

“Domestic migration drove change in the two fastest-growing states,
Idaho and Nevada, while an excess of births over deaths played a major
part in the growth of the third fastest-growing state, Utah,” said Luke
Rogers, Chief of the Population Estimates Branch.

The U.S. population grew by 2.3 million between July 1, 2016, and July
1, 2017, representing a 0.72 percent increase to 325.7 million.
Furthermore, the population of voting-age residents (adults age 18 and
over) grew to 252.1 million (77.4 percent of the 2017 total population),
an increase of 0.93 percent from 2016 (249.5 million). Net international
migration decreased 1.8 percent between 2016 and 2017, making it the
first drop since 2012-2013. However, net international migration
continues to be a significant factor in the population growth of the
United States, adding just over 1.1 million people in the last year.

Eight states lost population between July 1, 2016, and July 1, 2017.
Illinois had the largest numeric decline, losing 33,703 people (this was
a relatively small percentage change compared to its population of 12.8
million). Wyoming had the largest percentage decline (1.0 percent).
Three states that had been losing population in the previous year,
Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Vermont, saw slight increases.    

States in the South and West continued to lead in population growth. In
2017, 38.0 percent of the nation’s population lived in the South and
23.8 percent lived in the West.

In addition to the population estimates for the 50 states and the
District of Columbia, the new estimates show that Puerto Rico had an
estimated population of 3.3 million, a decline from 3.4 million in 2016.

The estimates for Puerto Rico are as of July 1, 2017, and therefore do
not reflect the effects of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017.
The estimates for Gulf states affected by Hurricane Harvey in August
2017 and Hurricane Irma in September 2017 are also not reflected in the
July 1, 2017, estimates.

Also released today were national-and state-level estimates of the
components of population change
<https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2010-2017/state/totals/nst-est2017-05.xlsx>,
which include tables on births, deaths and migration.


See URLs for numerical charts.


https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/estimates-idaho.html



Ken


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