{"id":303844,"date":"2026-05-07T05:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303844\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T05:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:57:07","slug":"sacramento-region-bucks-california-population-decline-with-rapid-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303844\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento region bucks California population decline with rapid growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as California&#8217;s population decline continues, the Sacramento region is bucking the trend, with several Northern California cities now among the fastest-growing in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A year of restrictive federal policy changes cut legal international migration to California by more than half last year, driving a slight decline in the population, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/Https:\/\/dof.Ca.Gov\/media\/docs\/forecasting\/demographics\/estimates\/e-1_2026_press_release.Pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">new data<\/a> released by the Department of Finance.<\/p>\n<p>But in Northern California, we&#8217;re seeing something different.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sacramento is poised for more growth as more people find out about all the special things that are here,&#8221; said Ryan Lundquist, a local housing analyst.<\/p>\n<p>Some areas in the Sacramento region are seeing sizable growth. According to new population estimates, Mountain House and Lathrop in San Joaquin County tied as California&#8217;s fastest-growing cities, each posting 5.6% population growth. Also in the top ten are Roseville in Placer County, and Folsom and Elk Grove, both in Sacramento County.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roseville had 2.7% growth, and for the size of the city, that&#8217;s substantial. It&#8217;s hard to be 2.7% for most cities in the area. I think there were only a couple of cities in the state that outpaced that, so I think that speaks to quite a bit of new construction,&#8221; Lundquist said.<\/p>\n<p>As for the fastest-growing counties, Placer comes out on top, followed by Yuba, with Sacramento, San Joaquin and Sutter counties also on the list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Placer County has continually been in the fastest-growing counties for a bunch of years now,&#8221; said Gloria Stearns, economic development and housing director with Placer County.<\/p>\n<p>She said the secret sauce is quality of life and balance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our board of supervisors has prioritized controlling growth, especially in the western part of the county. These decisions balance a few things. The growth of housing, the growth of businesses and jobs, and conserving natural space,&#8221; Stearns said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you look at California, coastal cities are outrageous, Bay Area prices are outrageous. So I think that&#8217;s what makes the Sacramento region appealing to a lot of people,&#8221; Lundquist said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento region saw a big influx of people moving here from the Bay Area in 2021 due to the pandemic and that trend continues, according to Lundquist. But we&#8217;re also seeing some people moving here from outside the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roseville, in particular, and Rancho Cordova. Some of these areas are going to look vastly different in the coming years. I don&#8217;t think locals realize how much development is slotted in these places,&#8221; Lundquist said.<\/p>\n<p>Lundquist said this is a sign of a healthy region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even as California&#8217;s population decline continues, the Sacramento region is bucking the trend, with several Northern California cities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-303844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}