population decrease

This year’s homeless count saw the overall population decrease for the first time since 2018, highlighted by a 10% annual reduction in unsheltered homelessness.

Employees of the prison may also be leaving as jobs dry up, contributing to population decrease.

“We noticed that the population decrease in the second half of 2022 has narrowed when compared to that in the first half, reflecting that movement of the Hong Kong population has begun to resume normal gradually,” the statement said.

The population decrease was second only to New York, which lost about 15,000 more people than California, census data show.

In that time, nearly 75 percent of all U.S. counties experienced a natural population decrease, compared with 55 percent of all counties in 2020 and 45 percent in 2019, the Census Bureau found.