US Population Growth Slows
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Across the U.S., population growth slowed but was still up 1.8 million or 0.5 percent from 2024 to 2025.
Nearly every state saw their population increase last year.
An estimated 7.1 million people moved to a different state between 2023 and 2024, Cen s us data released this week shows. For comparison, an estimated 297 million Americans remained in their same residence year over year, while about 29.9 million moved somewhere new but within the same state.
While New York's population has increased now for three consecutive years, it's still 201,269 lower than it was in 2020, according to the new census data.