The roads leaving California are filled with people driven out by good intentions.

Recent population numbers show the Las Vegas Valley continues to grow rapidly. From the summer of 2020 to the summer of 2024, the region's population jumped by 120,000 people, a 5.4 percent increase. The growth rate nationally was 2.6 percent.

Our increase is driven partly by people moving from California. They aren't just coming to southern Nevada. Former California residents have flocked to Florida, Texas and Arizona, too.

This is a major reason that California's population is lower now than it was before the pandemic. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that immigration is propping up the number of California residents. Absent new foreign residents, California's population would have dropped in 2

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