{"id":11042,"date":"2024-04-29T12:27:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T19:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11042"},"modified":"2024-03-30T12:36:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T19:36:48","slug":"three-pete-portland-population-continue-to-decline-for-3rd-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11042","title":{"rendered":"Three-pete. Portland population continue to decline for 3rd straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The bad news continues for Oregon and Portland. Populations are actually shrinking city, county, and state-wide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multnomah County has had a net lost of<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>nearly 27,000 residents from 2020 to 2023 \u2014 a 3.3% drop in population, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/programs-surveys\/popest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new estimates<\/a>\u00a0from the U.S. Census Bureau. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tidbits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>50% of out-migrant households from Portland&#8217;s tri-county area went to central Oregon, Washington,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/san-antonio\/2023\/11\/28\/san-antonio-cheaper-cost-of-living-housing-health\">Texas<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/phoenix\/2023\/11\/27\/cost-of-living-exceeds-national-average\">Arizona<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clark County, Washington (just across the river in Washington State), saw a 3.1% increase in population from 2020 to 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/portland\/2024\/03\/25\/multnomah-county-population-decline-continues-census\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/portland\/2024\/03\/25\/multnomah-county-population-decline-continues-census<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news continues for Oregon and Portland. Populations are actually shrinking city, county, and state-wide. Multnomah County has had a net lost of\u00a0nearly 27,000 residents from 2020 to 2023 \u2014 a 3.3% drop in population, according to\u00a0new estimates\u00a0from the U.S. Census Bureau. Tidbits: https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/portland\/2024\/03\/25\/multnomah-county-population-decline-continues-census<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2S6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11043,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042\/revisions\/11043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}