Individuals are persevering with to maneuver into New Hampshire, fueling a small inhabitants improve that was seen in all 10 of the state’s counties within the 12 months main as much as final July, based on new inhabitants estimates from the Census Bureau.
“New Hampshire was one of many few states – Maine was one other – that had a inhabitants improve in all of its counties,” wrote Kenneth Johnson, UNH demographer.
That development was small: about one-half of 1 p.c between July 2021 and July 2022. It could have been greater besides that a lot of the state continues to have extra deaths than births. Solely Hillsborough County had what known as pure improve – barely extra births than deaths – through the interval.
Merrimack County and Carroll County had the biggest p.c achieve at 0.92%, mentioned Johnson, a professor of sociology at UNH and senior demographer on the Carsey Faculty of Public Coverage.
New Hampshire’s ageing native inhabitants has been propped up for a number of years by in-migration, largely from different states somewhat than worldwide, however it’s uncommon for these positive aspects to increase to the North Nation. That will mirror adjustments in individuals’s habits brought on by the pandemic and the rise in distant work.
Nationally, the estimated U.S. inhabitants gained 0.38% throughout these 12 months. Solely half of the counties within the nation gained inhabitants within the interval.