I hit the paywall. What does it say are the reasons? Illegal immigration? Job availability (if so public or private)? Return to office mandates? Something else?
Legal immigration continued to rebound from the pandemic, with a net gain of 134,400 persons in 2023-24 compared to 115,900 in 2022-23—the highest level since 2018.
Greater domestic in-migration and slowed domestic out-migration helped to bring net loss in domestic migration down to below 200,000 persons in 2023-24 from nearly 250,000 persons in 2022-23. Net domestic migration from California in 2023-2024 has dropped significantly, to about one-sixth of the 2021 total and is similar to levels prior to 2018.
Natural increase—the net result of births minus deaths—increased from 107,400 in 2022-23 to 111,500 in 2023-24 as the number of deaths return to trend from their pandemic peak.
