OT - to all my fellow Californians

[JoMal]

Shortly, if not already, some news articles might be popping up in your local newspapers on California's population growth. My office has just released its annual press release on the population estimates for cities. <Which is why my current participation on the board has been spotty>

Some highlights include San Jose juuuust missing out becoming the tenth city in the U.S. to top 1 million people, Los Angeles topping out at almost 4,046,000, and San Francisco reaching its largest population size in history, (824,500).

My city, Sacramento, stands at 475,700, which is bigger then Oakland, but smaller then Fresno and Long Beach. If you are interested in where your city now stands population-wise, you can see it in our press release, or where it ranks in California from our web-page.

The press release can be found here:

http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/reports/estimates/e-1_2006-07/documents/e-1press.pdf

And our other estimate reports here:

http://www.dof.ca.gov/HTML/DEMOGRAP/ReportsPapers/ReportsPapers.php#estimates


BTW, the person who's name appears on the press release and in the narratives of the other reports, Daniel Sheya, works directly for me. My name appears with other managers as "providing general direction". No kidding.

[msc]

Thanks JoMal!  I love reading stats on Cali.  I was kind of surprised LA was only just north of 4mil.  I constantly hear 10mil thrown around as the figure, but I suppose that includes LA County and not just the city limits. 

Town I was born in, San Gabriel - 42,762

Town I currently reside, Santa Monica - 91,493

VIVA California! 

[JoMal]

Thanks JoMal!  I love reading stats on Cali.  I was kind of surprised LA was only just north of 4mil.  I constantly hear 10mil thrown around as the figure, but I suppose that includes LA County and not just the city limits. 

Town I was born in, San Gabriel - 42,762

Town I currently reside, Santa Monica - 91,493

VIVA California! 

Ten million IS the Los Angeles county total population, actually it is now 10,364,000. Only seven states, including California, have higher overall populations.

[westkoast]

Super interesting JoMal.  I am quite suprised at the growth of some of the areas in the Inland Empire in Southern California.  I thought with that area being so affected by foreclosures that the number of people living there would have decreased and not increased.  Although it looks like people who couldn't afford homes in that area went deeper into the desert and started to hit the Coachella Valley area with a force.  In fact all the areas that just 10 years ago were NOTHING out here are seeing a huge amount of people live there now.  I can't believe people are moving to Chula Vista and Coachella Valley like that, ACK!  The only time I ever step foot in Coachella Valley is for the yearly music festival they have (it just passed two weekends ago).  You have no idea how hot it can get down there.  WHO WANTS TO LIVE THERE)@(#!!)@(#

[JoMal]

Super interesting JoMal.  I am quite suprised at the growth of some of the areas in the Inland Empire in Southern California.  I thought with that area being so affected by foreclosures that the number of people living there would have decreased and not increased.  Although it looks like people who couldn't afford homes in that area went deeper into the desert and started to hit the Coachella Valley area with a force.  In fact all the areas that just 10 years ago were NOTHING out here are seeing a huge amount of people live there now.  I can't believe people are moving to Chula Vista and Coachella Valley like that, ACK!  The only time I ever step foot in Coachella Valley is for the yearly music festival they have (it just passed two weekends ago).  You have no idea how hot it can get down there.  WHO WANTS TO LIVE THERE)@(#!!)@(#

The economy is an equal opportunity driving force. People who already live within California are constantly shifting their residences to cheaper areas, and in SoCal, that is still the Inland Empire and areas within it. For those who are moving here, either as immigrants or domestically, tend to flock to the two regions they are familiar with - the Bay Area and Los Angeles county. You just recently got a new city down in Riverside County - Wildemar, which also shows that communities keep popping up in areas that bring in the people.

This was considered a "down" year, based on the economy, especially the massive decline in new housing being built and the tons of foreclosures that occurred, yet California still had growth of 490,000 new people, based on our state indicators.