{"id":11687,"date":"2024-07-11T08:43:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T15:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11687"},"modified":"2024-07-09T10:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T17:22:32","slug":"oregon-keeps-losing-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11687","title":{"rendered":"Oregon keeps losing population"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While other states are recovering from all the things that happened during Covid, Oregon went from being one of the #1 places to move to now one of the 8 states that is now losing population as people move away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The picture is even a little worse than a one-year metric because this isn’t a one time thing. Oregon, and the city of Portland, has lost population for 3 years running<\/a>. The state demographers have been using their own numbers and ignoring US Census data<\/a>; and have been wrong (3 years in a row<\/a>) saying these were only blips and incorrectly predicting quick rebounds.
Demographers are now starting to sounding economic impact alarm bells<\/a> and the state faces the possibility of losing a seat in congress<\/a>. Some have pointed out that this is exactly how rust belts formed in the NE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oregon now has the dubious distinction of ending up on a recent Visual Capitalist chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While other states are recovering from all the things that happened during Covid, Oregon went from being one of the #1 places to move to now one of the 8 states that is now losing population as people move away. The picture is even a little worse than a one-year metric because this isn’t a one time thing. Oregon, and the city of Portland, has lost population for 3 years running. The state demographers have been using their own numbers…<\/p>\n

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