Along with the 0.5% rate of population decline, New York also recorded the largest decline in pure numbers, with a drop of almost 102,000 residents, according to the U.S. Census.

New York lost more residents – and at the largest rate – in 2023 than any other state, despite an overall rise in the U.S. population, according to U.S. Census data.

The bureau released a map showing the percentage change in state populations between July 2022 and July 2023 – New York stands out as the only state colored a deep orange, a label for a percentage change of -0.5 or more.

  • Flying Squid
    2•9 months ago

    Please provide evidence that all of Florida and Texas have lower crime than all of Illinois, California, Oregon and New York.

    And yeah, I’m not surprised guns was your main criterion, even before crime and taxes. Gotta have the precious.

    • @Death_Equity
      2•9 months ago

      Not crime rate, enforcement.

      Guns were the reason you gave, so that came first.

      • Flying Squid
        2•9 months ago

        So it doesn’t matter how much crime there is, it only matters how many people arrested there are? That’s your metric?

      • @[email protected]
        1•9 months ago

        Enforcement metrics just show the rate that minorities get harassed by cops and aren’t proportional to crime itself. Crime statistics, unless comparing the same crime per-capita (ie, homicides per 100,000) tend to reflect the amount of regular activities criminalized rather than the number of harmful acts done by individuals (ie, make a drug that many people have a crime, and now you have more crime and more criminals).