Regionally, the Northeast lost almost 219,000 people in a trend largely driven by domestic residents moving out of New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, as well as deaths outpacing births in Pennsylvania.“It’s welcome because we would have been back to almost flatline growth if not for this immigration,” said William Frey, a demographer at The Brookings Institution.Other Southern states like North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee had among the largest growth in numbers in the U.S.Advertisement:Texas, the second most populous state in the U.S., surpassed the 30 million-resident mark, joining California as the only other state in this category.The top 10 states for numeric growth in population were:California lost more than 113,000 residents, and had a population just over 39 million in 2022, in what was the biggest annual decline behind New York’s more than 180,000-resident loss.Despite the overall population loss, California had the largest growth of any state in international residents, just a hair’s breadth ahead of Florida with more than 125,000 people."