Abstract
In this brief, author Kenneth Johnson reports that New England’s population gain of 123,000 (0.8 percent) between July 2023 and July 2024 was its largest in recent years, according to new Census Bureau estimates. International immigration accounted for the entire population gain, offsetting an excess of deaths over births and an outflow of domestic migrants to other U.S. destinations. Immigration was also an important source of population gain nationwide accounting for 84 percent of the U.S. population gain of 3.4 million. This produced the largest population gain in the United States in more than 20 years.
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island gained population last year, though the source of growth varied by state. Vermont was the only New England state to lose population last year because the excess of deaths over births combined with domestic outmigration exceeded the modest influx of immigrants to the state.
Department
Carsey School of Public Policy
Publication Date
Winter 12-19-2024
Series
National Issue Brief No. 186
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Kenneth M., "New England Is Gaining Population Due to Immigration" (2024). Carsey School of Public Policy. 499.
https://scholars.unh.edu/carsey/499
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