{"id":305383,"date":"2026-05-08T03:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305383\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T03:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:39:38","slug":"bakersfield-adds-nearly-1500-residents-in-a-year-ca-finance-data-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305383\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield adds nearly 1,500 residents in a year: CA finance data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield\u2019s population grew by nearly 1,500 people over the past year, according to new state statistics released in early May.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Bakersfield said <a href=\"https:\/\/dof.ca.gov\/forecasting\/demographics\/estimates-e1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">figures from the California Department of Finance show<\/a> the city\u2019s population increased 0.4% from last year to a total of 422,853. City officials said Bakersfield remains the ninth-largest city in California by population.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (3)<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Bakersfield\u2019s population was 403,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield\u2019s population grew by nearly 1,500 people over the past year, according to new state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-305383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305383","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=305383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}