California Population Decline 2024.  — in 2020 california’s population shrank for the first time since it joined the union in 1850.  — calmatters found that while california’s homeless population grew again, the rate has slowed.

(ap) — the nation’s most populous state is growing again, ending a trend of population decline that had dogged gov.  — even after three years of decline, though, california remains by far the nation’s most populous state, home to one in eight u.s.