Despite the loss of 1.5 million New York state residents to other states from 2000 to 2008, the Capital District gained population among people moving around the state and nation, according to a report from the Empire Center for New York State Policy. California was reportedly the only other state to lose more than a million of its people to out-migration.
The report concluded that New York lost more than any other state due to people moving out, although a continuing flow of new arrivals more than offset the losses, resulting in an overall population increase of about 2.7 percent from 2000 to 2008. The state currently has an estimated population of nearly 19.5 million people, according to US census bureau estimates.
New York's loss of residents is a continuation of a long-term trend that earlier saw 1.7 million people move to other states during the 1990s, according to the Empire Center report.
Read the full report at:
http://www.empirecenter.org/pb/2009/10/empirestateexodus102709.cfm
