California released new population numbers. Here’s how the Sacramento region changed

The four-county Sacramento region’s population grew by almost 25,000, or about 1.1 percent, to 2.33 million from July 2017 to July 2018, according to estimates released Friday by the state Department of Finance.

While not a population boom, that rate of growth was double the rate of population growth statewide. The region has seen similar annual rates of growth for the last several years.

The region is gaining more residents from other parts of California and the United States than it is losing. About 5,000 more people came here from other parts of the nation than left between July 2017 and July 2018. Increases in domestic migration were concentrated in El Dorado and Placer counties. The region has lately seen an influx of Bay Area transplants, many of them fleeing the high cost of living near Silicon Valley.

California as a whole is losing more people to other states than it is gaining. About 160,000 more people left California for other states than came here from them.

International immigration added about 12,000 residents to the Sacramento region between July 2017 and July 2018, similar to the number from the previous year. International migration was concentrated in Sacramento and Yolo counties. Births in the region declined slightly, part of a nationwide slowdown in birth rates. Deaths increased in the region, largely a product of the aging baby boomer generation.