It's still a very modest growth, but Michigan finally turned the corner on out-migration with this period. It's been the one thing stiffling growth the previous five years the state grew. You take that factor away, and you have more "normal" growth for the state coming leading up to the 2020 Census, finally. We've kind of been expecting this having seen Detroit's population loss slow down significantly in recent years. I'll be very interested to see what the sub-county numbers look like in the coming months, but it's very likely to show loss in Wayne County slow to a trickle.
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Say hello to more Michiganders! Population rises for sixth straight year
By Kristi Tanner | Detroit Free Press
December 20, 2017
Michigan's population is up again, for the sixth consecutive year, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Wednesday. About 9,962,311 residents lived in the state on July 1, 2017, an increase of 28,866 people or 0.3% from a year earlier.
The state's growth rate remains slower than the national rate of 0.7%.
The population gain includes births and people migrating to the state. Michigan recorded a positive net migration – more people moving to the state than leaving -- for the first time in records dating to at least 2000, according to the Census Bureau. Statistics were not available prior to then.
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