People are moving to Alabama in larger numbers than the state has seen in at least a decade.
. As COVID-19 tore through Alabama, the last three years have been the deadliest in the state’s history.The state’s population loss due to natural change was more than offset by the number of people who moved here. Overall, Alabama added about 25,000 people from 2021 to 2022, the 15th highest increase in the nation, and the biggest raw growth Alabama has seen in years.
Even before the start of the pandemic, Alabama was starting to see a shift in population change. The state’s net population gain from migration has increased every year since 2014, and that increase accelerated in 2020, even as the pandemic raged.And as COVID-19 now slows, Alabama may be showing signs of inching back toward pre-pandemic population trends. Overall deaths in the state slowed in 2022, and births rose, though both are still far from 2010s norms.
Alabama’s relatively rapid growth over the last year is somewhat surprising, considering the fact that most of the state’s counties have been losing people in recent years. between 2020 and 2021,
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