https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/12/19/californias-sees-large-population-increase-in-2024-nearly-returning-to-pre-pandemic-level/ > California’s population grew this year by nearly a quarter of a million residents, bouncing back close to the record-high population levels the Golden State had reached before the pandemic, but growing more slowly than the country as a whole and other large states in the South, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday. > “As the nation’s population surpasses 340 million, this is the fastest annual population growth the nation has seen since 2001,” the U.S. Census Bureau wrote in a statement Thursday. “The growth was primarily driven by rising net international migration.”