California Population Growth 2024. Projections of population with components of change, births, and public school enrollment at the state and county level produced by the demographic research unit (dru). An annual population report released tuesday showed that the state’s population increased last year by about 67,000 people, driven largely by lower mortality and rebounding legal immigration.

California’s population increased in 2023 for the first time in three years. The top five regions with the largest increases—sutter county, imperial county, glenn county, yuba county, and.