Post by jeffolie on Mar 16, 2013 17:37:41 GMT -6
Immigration offsets resident flight from So. CA
About a net gain of 1 million Chinese now immigrate to America while the net gain from Mexico, et al is about ZERO.
Los Angeles' region experiences Chinese 'birth hotels' to sponsor the birth of Chinese on 'vacations' to give birth to dual citizenship children without the 'single child' restrictions ... many new immigratants to So. CA come from the East including many countries such as Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, while the census shows China as the single largest.
Just a little east of the City of Los Angeles city limits is Monterey Park which now predominantly is Chinese. Advertisements for housing appears in China in Chinese for Monterey Park real estate...not so much in English in the Los Angeles Times classified.
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Immigration offsets resident flight from Southern California, census data show
03/14/2013
Immigration to Southern California counties and other counties around the state is boosting the anemic rate of population growth. At the same time, a record number of U.S. counties are hemorrhaging residents due to failing economies and the flight of young families chasing job opportunities.
A new census report released Thursday shows Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties among the top 10 in numeric gains, and the Los Angeles metro area joining New York, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston in adding more than 100,000 residents between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012.
Los Angeles County illustrates the churning population in Southern California as residents head for the exit and pass immigrants on the way in. The county saw more than 41,000 immigrants move in.
Still, the county underwent a negative "domestic migration" of 40,361, which is the difference between the number of people moving in from within the U.S. and the number of county residents moving somewhere else in the country.
"The numbers you're seeing in Southern California are very, very low by historic standards and it's symptomatic of the economy," said Hans Johnson, co-director of research and a senior fellow at the San Francisco-based Public Policy Institute of California. "There's no surprise that people who are leaving the state for other states are going to other western states and Texas. "
Los Angeles County is inching toward the 10 million population mark in large part because of its birth-to-death ratio. There were 73,332 more births than deaths over the one-year period measured. Census figures show the county at 9,962,789 residents.
But while L.A. County ranks highest in the nation in terms of population, it is among the lowest Southern California counties when it comes to the rate of growth, at just 0.7 percent.
Riverside County, at a 1.4 percent rate of growth,is outpaced statewide only by Alameda County at 1.5 percent, bringing its population to nearly 2.3 million, or fourth in the state.
No county in California ranks among the top 100 fastest-growing counties nationwide.
"More people are leaving for other states than are coming to California," said Eugene Turner, a Cal State Northridge professor who studies population. "There's been a whole series of negative things that have impacted the California economy, so a lot of people that are middle class have gone to other places to find employment. "
On the other hand, counties in the Great Plains and West Texas are seeing a relative population boom.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau report, Midland, Texas, was the fastest-growing metro area, with its population increasing 4.6 percent. Odessa and the Austin-Round Rock areas of Texas ranked fifth and seventh respectively.
Casper and Cheyenne in Wyoming also ranked among the 20 fastest-growing metro areas, along with Manhattan, Kan., and Bismarck, N.D.
"After a long period of out-migration, some parts of the Great Plains "" from just south of the Canadian border all the way down to West Texas "" are experiencing rapid population growth," said Thomas Mesenbourg, the Census Bureau's acting director, in a news release.
"There are probably many factors fueling this growth on the prairie, but no doubt the energy boom is playing a role. For instance, the Permian Basin, located primarily in West Texas, and North Dakota accounted for almost half of the total U.S. growth in firms that mine or extract oil and gas, during a recent one-year period. "
At the same time, immigrants are propping up slow population growth in many metro areas across the nation, as the U.S. is seeing a record number of counties with decreasing populations.
Census data show that 1,135 of the nation's 3,143 counties are now experiencing "natural decrease," where deaths exceed births. That's up from roughly 880 U.S. counties, or 1 in 4, in 2009.
Without new immigrants, many metropolitan areas such as New York, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and St. Louis would have posted flat or negative population growth in the last year.
The growing attention on immigrants is coming mostly from areas of the Midwest and Northeast, which are seeing many of their residents leave after years of staying put during the downturn. With a slowly improving U.S. economy, young adults are now back on the move, departing traditional big cities to test the job market mostly in the South and West, which had sustained the biggest hits in the housing bust.
Despite increasing deaths, the U.S. population as a whole continues to grow, boosted by immigration from abroad and relatively higher births among the mostly younger migrants from Mexico, Latin America and Asia.
The areas of natural decrease stretch from industrial areas near Pittsburgh and Cleveland to the vineyards outside San Francisco to the rural areas of east Texas and the Great Plains. A common theme is a waning local economy, such as farming, mining or industrial areas of the Rust Belt. They also include some retirement communities in Florida, although many are cushioned by a steady flow of new retirees each year.
As a nation, the U.S. population grew by just 0.75 percent last year, stuck at historically low levels not seen since 1937.
New York ranks tops in new immigrants among large metro areas, but also ranks at the top for young residents moving away.
Immigrants accounted for than 13 percent of the population growth in the Inland Empire, which rose by more than 48,000 people.
Emilio Amaya, who assists immigrants as the executive director of the San Bernardino Community Service Center, said the area remains a destination because of its relatively cheap housing.
"Rents are still lower than most places," he said. "We still see a lot of people commuting to other places such as Los Angeles. It's not so much employment. They've been able to find affordable housing. The other reason is warehouse and logistics jobs. In the last 10 years, warehousing in the Inland Empire is bringing in a lot of people. "
www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_22794347/immigration-offsets-resident-flight-from-southern-california-census
About a net gain of 1 million Chinese now immigrate to America while the net gain from Mexico, et al is about ZERO.
Los Angeles' region experiences Chinese 'birth hotels' to sponsor the birth of Chinese on 'vacations' to give birth to dual citizenship children without the 'single child' restrictions ... many new immigratants to So. CA come from the East including many countries such as Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, while the census shows China as the single largest.
Just a little east of the City of Los Angeles city limits is Monterey Park which now predominantly is Chinese. Advertisements for housing appears in China in Chinese for Monterey Park real estate...not so much in English in the Los Angeles Times classified.
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Immigration offsets resident flight from Southern California, census data show
03/14/2013
Immigration to Southern California counties and other counties around the state is boosting the anemic rate of population growth. At the same time, a record number of U.S. counties are hemorrhaging residents due to failing economies and the flight of young families chasing job opportunities.
A new census report released Thursday shows Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties among the top 10 in numeric gains, and the Los Angeles metro area joining New York, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston in adding more than 100,000 residents between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012.
Los Angeles County illustrates the churning population in Southern California as residents head for the exit and pass immigrants on the way in. The county saw more than 41,000 immigrants move in.
Still, the county underwent a negative "domestic migration" of 40,361, which is the difference between the number of people moving in from within the U.S. and the number of county residents moving somewhere else in the country.
"The numbers you're seeing in Southern California are very, very low by historic standards and it's symptomatic of the economy," said Hans Johnson, co-director of research and a senior fellow at the San Francisco-based Public Policy Institute of California. "There's no surprise that people who are leaving the state for other states are going to other western states and Texas. "
Los Angeles County is inching toward the 10 million population mark in large part because of its birth-to-death ratio. There were 73,332 more births than deaths over the one-year period measured. Census figures show the county at 9,962,789 residents.
But while L.A. County ranks highest in the nation in terms of population, it is among the lowest Southern California counties when it comes to the rate of growth, at just 0.7 percent.
Riverside County, at a 1.4 percent rate of growth,is outpaced statewide only by Alameda County at 1.5 percent, bringing its population to nearly 2.3 million, or fourth in the state.
No county in California ranks among the top 100 fastest-growing counties nationwide.
"More people are leaving for other states than are coming to California," said Eugene Turner, a Cal State Northridge professor who studies population. "There's been a whole series of negative things that have impacted the California economy, so a lot of people that are middle class have gone to other places to find employment. "
On the other hand, counties in the Great Plains and West Texas are seeing a relative population boom.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau report, Midland, Texas, was the fastest-growing metro area, with its population increasing 4.6 percent. Odessa and the Austin-Round Rock areas of Texas ranked fifth and seventh respectively.
Casper and Cheyenne in Wyoming also ranked among the 20 fastest-growing metro areas, along with Manhattan, Kan., and Bismarck, N.D.
"After a long period of out-migration, some parts of the Great Plains "" from just south of the Canadian border all the way down to West Texas "" are experiencing rapid population growth," said Thomas Mesenbourg, the Census Bureau's acting director, in a news release.
"There are probably many factors fueling this growth on the prairie, but no doubt the energy boom is playing a role. For instance, the Permian Basin, located primarily in West Texas, and North Dakota accounted for almost half of the total U.S. growth in firms that mine or extract oil and gas, during a recent one-year period. "
At the same time, immigrants are propping up slow population growth in many metro areas across the nation, as the U.S. is seeing a record number of counties with decreasing populations.
Census data show that 1,135 of the nation's 3,143 counties are now experiencing "natural decrease," where deaths exceed births. That's up from roughly 880 U.S. counties, or 1 in 4, in 2009.
Without new immigrants, many metropolitan areas such as New York, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and St. Louis would have posted flat or negative population growth in the last year.
The growing attention on immigrants is coming mostly from areas of the Midwest and Northeast, which are seeing many of their residents leave after years of staying put during the downturn. With a slowly improving U.S. economy, young adults are now back on the move, departing traditional big cities to test the job market mostly in the South and West, which had sustained the biggest hits in the housing bust.
Despite increasing deaths, the U.S. population as a whole continues to grow, boosted by immigration from abroad and relatively higher births among the mostly younger migrants from Mexico, Latin America and Asia.
The areas of natural decrease stretch from industrial areas near Pittsburgh and Cleveland to the vineyards outside San Francisco to the rural areas of east Texas and the Great Plains. A common theme is a waning local economy, such as farming, mining or industrial areas of the Rust Belt. They also include some retirement communities in Florida, although many are cushioned by a steady flow of new retirees each year.
As a nation, the U.S. population grew by just 0.75 percent last year, stuck at historically low levels not seen since 1937.
New York ranks tops in new immigrants among large metro areas, but also ranks at the top for young residents moving away.
Immigrants accounted for than 13 percent of the population growth in the Inland Empire, which rose by more than 48,000 people.
Emilio Amaya, who assists immigrants as the executive director of the San Bernardino Community Service Center, said the area remains a destination because of its relatively cheap housing.
"Rents are still lower than most places," he said. "We still see a lot of people commuting to other places such as Los Angeles. It's not so much employment. They've been able to find affordable housing. The other reason is warehouse and logistics jobs. In the last 10 years, warehousing in the Inland Empire is bringing in a lot of people. "
www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_22794347/immigration-offsets-resident-flight-from-southern-california-census