Data Snapshot: Migration Fuels Largest New Hampshire Population Gain in a Decade

The population of New Hampshire grew by 7,800 between July of 2016 and July of 2017 to 1,343,000 according to new Census Bureau estimates. This is the largest population gain for the state since 2005 and 60 percent greater than last year, though it remains modest compared to gains in the 1980s and 1990s. Migration accounted for nearly all of the growth. New Hampshire had a net domestic migration gain of nearly 4,700 residents in migration exchanges with other states last year, compared to just 1,800 in the previous year

Data Snapshot: 2.1 Million More Childless U.S. Women Than Anticipated

In 2016, there were 2.1 million more childless women of prime child-bearing age than anticipated. The 19.5 million women age 20–39 in 2016 who had never given birth was 12 percent more than demographers would have expected given child-bearing patterns just before the Great Recession. In 2016, there were 7 percent more women 20–39 than ten years earlier, but 22 percent more who had never had a child

Domestic Migration and Fewer Births Reshaping America

In this fact sheet, author Kenneth Johnson analyzes new Census Bureau data released on March 22, 2018, to analyze the continuing influence of domestic migration on U.S. demographic trends. He reports that domestic migration losses from large urban cores rose sharply. Domestic migration gains are accelerating in other metro areas. Population growth has resumed in rural areas. In addition, while the number of deaths is rising, the number of births is not

More Young Adult Migrants Moving to New Hampshire From Other U.S. Locations

New Hampshire received a significant net inflow of people from other U.S. states between 2013 and 2017 according to new Census Bureau estimates. The average annual domestic migration gain was 5,900 between 2013 and 2017. In contrast, only about 100 more people moved to New Hampshire than left it for other U.S. destinations annually during the Great Recession and its aftermath between 2008 and 201

Data Snapshot: Ten Years After the Great Recession Began, U.S. Birth Rate Is at Record Low

Recent National Center for Health Statistics data show a record low birth rate in the United States, and no evidence of any upturn in these birth rates. Though other social and economic factors may also be influencing U.S. birth rates, the impact of the Great Recession persists. I estimate that in 2017, there were 700,000 fewer births in the United States than would have been expected had pre-recessionary birth rates continued among current women of childbearing age

Data Snapshot: U.S. Population Growth Continues to Slow Due to Fewer Births and More Deaths

The U.S. population grew by just 2,020,000 or 0.62 percent between July 2017 and July 2018 according to recent Census Bureau estimates. This is the lowest population growth rate since 1937

Data Snapshot: Hispanic Population of Child-Bearing Age Grows, but Births Diminish

The U.S. population grew by just 0.62 percent last year, the smallest rate of increase in eighty years. Future growth now depends on minority population gains, because the white population is no longer growing. Hispanics are the largest minority group and now account for the majority of U.S. population gain

New Faces at the Polls for New Hampshire Presidential Primary

There will be many new faces at the polls on January 8th for the New Hampshire Presidential Primary. Between 2001 and 2006, at least 207,000 people moved to New Hampshire from elsewhere in the United States and 188,000 left the state. With only 1,315,000 residents, this has produced considerable turnover in the pool of potential voters

Demographic Trends in Nonmetropolitan America: Implications for Land Use Development and Conservation.

This research contributes new information delineating the rapidity and geographic scale at which demographic change is occurring in non-metropolitan America. Rural areas are being buffeted by economic, social, and governmental transformations from far beyond their borders. These structural transformations are reflected in the demographic trends playing out across the vast rural landscape in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The patterns of demographic change in rural America are complex and subtle, but their impact is not. Population change has significant implications for the people, places, and institutions of rural America; for the natural environment that is a fundamental part of what rural America was, is, and will become; and for the laws and policies that seek to balance the rights of individuals with the needs of the larger society. This article examines the influence of demographic forces on non-metropolitan population redistribution trends in the U.S. in the first decade of the twenty-first century