Who’s leaving? Where are they going? And which neighborhoods are the biggest losers?
Bay Area residents, fed up with high housing costs, crime and other quality-of-life concerns, have packed up and left the region in droves since the start of the pandemic in 2020.
While there are signs the exodus is slowing, a falling population is threatening to upend everything from school enrollment to tax revenue to business vitality – raising the prospect of a dreaded economic “Here are five charts that help explain the exodus out of the Bay Area and California – who’s moving out, where they’re going and what neighborhoods they’re leaving behind.California’s population fell 1.2% between 2020 to 2022 to just over 39 million people.
At the same time, ex-Californians flocked to more affordable sunbelt states, which have undergone building booms in recent years. Vickie Sims plans to sell her longtime East Oakland home and move to Nevada when her partner retires in the coming years. The couple loves the city’s diversity but are growing tired of the crime and gun violence in their neighborhood.Sims, 63, said that buying elsewhere in the Bay Area – where the median single-family home price now tops $1.2 million – simply isn’t an option.3.
Meanwhile, hundreds more households – many whose members are no longer tied to offices and seeking out more living space – have poured into bucolic areas like San Ramon, Carmel, and portions of Sonoma County than have left.“Certainly, a lot of what we saw happen during the during the pandemic was related to the ability to work remotely,” said Hans Johnson, demographer at the Public Policy Institute of California.
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