The San Francisco metro area's population increased by about 0.9% between July 2023 and July 2024 — equivalent to 39,000 or so residents over the course of that year — to a total of 4.65 ...

That's more than 6% of the city's population. Those dramatic numbers put San Francisco on the map in a different way. So many people are leaving San Francisco metro area or are thinking about it.

The San Francisco metropolitan area had some of the biggest population declines from 2020 to 2021, losing more than 125,000 residents, according to the latest available Census data.

San Francisco saw a drop of 4,400 people, or 0.5 percent of its population, between July 2021 and July 2022, smaller than the drop of 3.7 percent the year before.

California’s population is slowly bouncing back after the state experienced an exodus in the two years after the pandemic began, according to recently released state data.. The state had over 100,000 ...

From 2020 to 2021, San Francisco lost 54,813 people, or 6.3 percent of its population, according to the Census Bureau — the largest proportion of population lost in a major U.S. city during the ...

Population losses have started to slow in most major metro areas, with gains last year in Boston, Minneapolis and San Francisco. The nation is continuing its decades-long move to the South and ...