California Business Minute™

Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute.

The State’s Department of Finance released its latest population growth estimates
identifying that the state population grew by 1.1 percent to 38.3 million. 

Riverside County, one of the fastest-growing areas in the state for several years,
which had been growing at 4 percent per year since 200 only, grew by 1.4%, compared
with 2.4% in 2007.

San Bernardino County, which was growing by about 2% annually, added only 16,000
residents, less than 1%, in 2008, according to the figures. Its population is now
a little more than 2 million.

Los Angeles County, the largest population in the state, grew by less than 1% --
about 92,000 residents -- to 10.4 million people.

Ventura and Orange counties grew at about the state rate of 1%, to 836,000 and 3.1
million, respectively.

San Jose with a 2.1 percent, 21,000-person population jump in 2008, recorded its
biggest annual percentage population growth this decade and becoming the first West
Coast city north of Los Angeles to notch its one millionth resident, actually, it's
1,006,892 residents.

Sacramento grew 1.4 percent last year to 481,097, its annual average growth for the
decade has been 1.9 percent.

California's 10 most populous cities as of Jan. 1, 2009, with percentage of growth
since 2008:

1. Los Angeles, 4,065,585, 1.1%
2. San Diego, 1,353,993, 1.5%
3. San Jose, 1,006,892, 2.2%
4. San Francisco, 845,559, 1.2%
5. Fresno, 495,913, 2.2%
6. Long Beach, 492,682, 0.6%
7. Sacramento, 481,097, 1.4%
8. Oakland, 425,068, 1.4%
9. Santa Ana, 355,662, 1.2%
10. Anaheim, 348,467, 0.9%

 Source: California Department of Finance

I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.

For further information: 
http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/reports/estimates/e-1/2008-09/