Hawaii’s high cost of living has historically been a top reason residents move away.
For the fifth consecutive year, Hawaii’s population has decreased, according to the United States Census Bureau’s annualFrom July 2020 to July 2021, Hawaii’s population decreased from 1,451,911 residents to 1,441,553 residents. It’s a decline in population of 10,358 residents or .7%.in the nation for highest population decline. The top three, including the District of Columbia, were Illinois at .9%, New York at 1.6%, and D.C ranking No. 1 at 2.9%.
The state’s population decline breaks a long pattern of positive growth. Prior to 2017, the last negative change in population was in 1999, and before that, 1963.population results for Hawaii, which is counted only once per decade. Hawaii showed a 7% population increase from 2010 to 2020, however, the annual growth rate was the slowest the state had ever recorded. It grew at half the rate compared to 2000 and 2010.
Hawaii’s high cost of living has historically been a top reason for many residents to move away, but the pandemic increased economic hardship as unemployment rates went up.of 2.1% with 13,993 unemployed, but by April of that year, it had skyrocketed to 21.9% with 139,635 unemployed, according to Hawaii’s Department of Labor. The unemployment rate has since dropped significantly, but was last recorded at 6.4%, or 41,113 unemployed, in October 2021.
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