Despite Pennsylvania's population declining overall, Pike County saw a 5 percent increase in population between 2020 and 2023.
Pennsylvania is one of only a handful of shrinking states in the U.S., but one county in the Keystone State has seen its population boom.Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state in the U.S., after California, Texas, Florida and New York. As of July 1, 2023, the state had a total population of 12,961,683, having dropped from 12,972,091 in 2022, 13,013,614 in 2021 and 13,002,788 in 2020.
The shrinking Pennsylvania population may be part of the general trend of migration to more southern states, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.'Most of the growth or decline in all the states is due to domestic migration, people moving from/to other states. Some states grew, others declined, for many of the same reasons,' Dudley Poston, an emeritus professor of sociology at Texas A&M University, previously told Newsweek.
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