“Hurricane Maria in September of 2017 further impacted that loss, both before and during the recovery period. “Puerto Rico has seen a steady decline in population over the last decade,” Sandra Johnson, a Census bureau demographer and statistician, said in comments released Wednesday with the new estimates.

territory was devastated by Hurricane Maria during that period. The biggest decline, however, came in Puerto Rico, which saw an estimated population decrease of 129,848 people, or 3.9 percent, from July 2017 to July 2018. Los Angeles Countys Population Ranked Among 20 Most Populous U.S. They were New York, down 48,510 people Illinois, down 45,116 West Virginia, down 11,216 Louisiana, down 10,840 Hawaii, down 3,712 Mississippi, down 3,133 Alaska, down 2,348 Connecticut, down 1,215 and Wyoming, down 1,197. Under the supervision of the Director, Population Health/Case Management, the Senior Population Health Business Analyst is responsible for analysis of patient safety, efficiency, clinical and financial data aggregation and reporting of data to effectively analyze and determine opportunities to improve outcomes and/or processes and. States that lost population during the year were scattered across the country, according to the Census numbers. Average population density 434.9 people per square mile. The average population in each state is 5,763,868 people. Florida’s estimated numeric growth was second-highest at 322,513. Average land area of each state is 63,142 square miles. Texas saw the largest numeric growth, gaining 379,128 people over the year. Rounding out the top 10 in growth rates were Washington, Colorado, Texas, South Carolina and North Carolina, according to the Census Bureau. The fastest rates of growth from 2017 to 2018 were in Nevada at 2.1 percent Idaho at 2.1 percent Utah at 1.9 percent Arizona at 1.7 percent and Florida at 1.5 percent.

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