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Population Growth by state

Percent change from year ago. Every state colored on one scale across all years, joined to the map by FIPS code.

2024
20062024
Texas: +2.6%California: +1.2%Kentucky: +1.4%Georgia: +1.4%Wisconsin: +0.8%Oregon: +0.9%Missouri: +0.8%Virginia: +1.1%Tennessee: +1.4%Louisiana: +0.5%New York: +1.5%Idaho: +1.9%Florida: +3.4%Illinois: +1.3%Montana: +0.4%Minnesota: +1.0%Maryland: +1.3%Iowa: +1.1%District of Columbia: +3.4%Ohio: +0.8%Nebraska: +1.4%Washington: +1.9%South Dakota: +0.6%Oklahoma: +1.0%Wyoming: +0.6%West Virginia: -0.0%Indiana: +0.9%Massachusetts: +1.9%Nevada: +2.3%North Dakota: +1.6%Arkansas: +0.7%Mississippi: +0.1%Colorado: +1.4%North Carolina: +1.9%Utah: +2.5%Hawaii: +0.8%New Mexico: +0.8%Kansas: +1.0%Rhode Island: +1.5%Michigan: +1.0%Alaska: +0.9%Delaware: +1.9%Alabama: +1.0%South Carolina: +2.0%Maine: +0.7%New Jersey: +2.3%Pennsylvania: +0.9%New Hampshire: +0.5%Arizona: +2.0%Connecticut: +1.6%Vermont: +0.2%+2.6+1.2+1.4+1.4+0.8+0.9+0.8+1.1+1.4+0.5+1.5+1.9+3.4+1.3+0.4+1.0+1.3+1.1+0.8+1.4+1.9+0.6+1.0+0.6-0.0+0.9+1.9+2.3+1.6+0.7+0.1+1.4+1.9+2.5+0.8+0.8+1.0+1.0+0.9+1.0+2.0+0.7+0.9+2.0
-2.8%
+12.9%

The color scale is fixed across all years, so a state changing shade as you move the slider is a real change in the value.

2024 · Highest: District of Columbia +3.4% · Lowest: West Virginia -0.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 1-year · B01003_001E · table · 2006 to 2024

Reading it. Derived from the ACS population estimate. The 2020 gap in the ACS 1-year series means no growth figure is shown for 2021.

Comparing states is harder than it looks. A dollar buys more in some states than others, and survey estimates carry a margin of error. Read the map for the pattern, not for a precise ranking.