{"id":10,"date":"2026-09-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/lynnemercer-com\/2026\/09\/06\/californias-dynamic-population-trends-highlight-new-opportunities\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T13:00:00","slug":"californias-dynamic-population-trends-highlight-new-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/06\/californias-dynamic-population-trends-highlight-new-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Dynamic Population Trends Highlight New Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>California experienced a slight population decline of 0.02%, losing about 9,465 residents from 2024 to 2025. Overall U.S. population growth slowed to below 1%. Five states lost residents, with Vermont seeing the largest decrease. New England states have the oldest populations, while Utah has the youngest. California&#039;s median age is 39, with 5.21% under age 5 and over 17.5% aged 65 or older.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/california-one-five-states-lose-171342000.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California experienced a slight population decline of 0.02%, losing about 9,465 residents from 2024 to 2025. Overall U.S. population growth slowed to below 1%. Five states lost residents, with Vermont seeing the largest decrease. New England states have the oldest populations, while Utah has the youngest. California&#039;s median age is 39, with 5.21% under age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}