https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/11/02/californias-outmigration-woes-no-1-gap-no-1-improvement/

California last year had the nation’s biggest gap between people who arrived and folks who departed – despite also enjoying the biggest improvement in what demographers call “net migration” among the states.

My trusty spreadsheet’s review of new state-to-state migration data from the Census Bureau shows the net outflow of 268,052 was California’s fourth biggest since 2004. Last year’s No. 2 was New York, with outmigration at 179,709.