New Jersey grew between 2010 and 2020, but that wasn’t the case over the past year.
According to a new estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau released shortly before Christmas, the Garden State lost a net of 12,613 residents between July 2020 and July 2021. That makes New Jersey the 8th worst state for population growth at the moment (behind 7 other states and also the District of Columbia).
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New Jersey continues to have one of the nation’s worst per capita Covid-19 death rates, a reality which clearly didn’t help matters.
Another possible cause behind the change: newly-remote workers relocating to cheaper states during the pandemic.
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Unsurprisingly, 8 of the top 10 “decline” states were also “blue” in the 2020 election…
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