During the pandemic, the population of New York City dropped by about half a million, and it also turns out that a quarter of them moved to Florida.
In California, San Francisco’s population has declined considerably, with 7.5 percent of its citizens having left during the pandemic.
Despite the massive population loss, New York is still by far the most populous American city with a population of 8.3 million.
Los Angeles is in second place with 3.8 million, and Chicago in third place with a population of 2.6 million, according to the July 2022 survey. Both cities have lost their population since spring 2020, but according to official data, this number has not reached 100,000.
The list of the five largest cities in the United States also includes Houston, Texas, where 2.3 million people lived in July 2022, which means that it managed to regain the population it lost in the first year of the pandemic by mid-2022. The fifth largest city in the United States is Phoenix, Arizona It has a population of more than 1.6 million people.
The population loss in major cities was the largest in the early years of the pandemic – this is evident from the summary of the Federal Data Recorder.
Among the states in the United States, most people target Florida as their new place of residence.
655,000 people have moved from different parts of the country to the southeastern coast state of the country since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the Florida Department of Transportation, 124,000 people have changed their New York license plates to ones that match their new residence.
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