COLUMBUS – Ohio is No. 7 in population among the 50 states, at just under 11.8 million, after picking up more than 26,000 new residents this year.
New estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau Tuesday show that, between July 2022 and July of this year, Ohio welcomed 26,238 new residents, bringing the state’s population to 11.785 million, still 13,396 fewer than at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020.
Population trends are returning to pre-pandemic norms as the number of annual deaths decreased last year and migration reverted to patterns not seen since before 2020, according to the Census Bureau’s Vintage 2023 population estimates.
The estimates show the United States added another 1.6 million people and the total populations grew to 334.9 million. South Carolina and Florida were the two fastest-growing states.
There were about 300,000 fewer deaths compared with a year earlier but more than two-thirds of the growth came from international migration, the bureau said.