{"id":181147,"date":"2026-05-01T12:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181147\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:09:23","slug":"is-erie-county-pas-population-growing-or-shrinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181147\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Erie County, PA&#8217;s population growing or shrinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A county\u2019s population is influenced by three factors:<\/p>\n<p>Natural population change: If births outnumber deaths in a given year, natural population growth is positive. If deaths exceed births, it is negative. Between 2023 and 2024 natural population change was negative in Erie County, PA, with deaths exceeding births by 537. <\/p>\n<p>Immigration: international migration directly into or out of a county: If more people move in than move out, population change from immigration is positive. If more people move out than move in, it\u2019s negative. Between 2023 to 2024, Erie County, PA\u2019s population change from immigration was positive with about 1,100 more people coming from another country directly to Erie County, PA than leaving. <\/p>\n<p>Domestic migration, moving between counties: Between 2023 to 2024, Erie County, PA\u2019s population change from domestic migration was negative with about 1,000 more people moving to any other county in the US. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A county\u2019s population is influenced by three factors: Natural population change: If births outnumber deaths in a given&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-181147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}