Florida's Population

Florida’s Population: Gain or Loss?

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Hey guys, let’s start with dry statistics:

The US Census Bureau has published interim data on the change in the country’s population for 2020–2022.

In 2022, the population grew by 0.4%, or 1.2 million, reaching a level of 333.2 million people.

They say that the main driver was migration from other countries; due to migrants, the population increased by a million people in 2022, an increase of 168% compared to 2021.

Natural population growth (birth rate minus death rate) amounted to 245 thousand people.

Well, what about Florida’s population? Here we have more interesting numbers:

Florida’s Population: Gain or Loss?

Gain definitely.

Actually, Florida’s population will grow to 22 million by 2023.

Demographers confirm that Florida’s population continues to grow.

According to the latest forecasts, the population of the state will increase by 330,000 people a year. And the trend will continue in the next 5 years.

Now Florida is in third place in the United States in terms of the number of inhabitants.

21.3 million people live here. More people live only in California and Texas.

According to forecasts, in the remaining half of the year, the staff will be replenished by 900 new residents daily.

How?

The reason for this figure is not the high birth rate but the popularity of the state among visitors.

They are not embarrassed by cataclysms; the destruction of Hurricane Michael practically did not affect the population. Many simply moved to neighboring counties and cities.

Is Florida Gaining or Losing Population?

Currently, Florida is growing in population.

The largest cities in the state of Florida are Jacksonville (more than 820,000 inhabitants, eleventh place in the list of the largest US cities), Miami (about 400,000 inhabitants), Tampa (about 340,000 inhabitants), St. Petersburg (about 250,000 inhabitants), Orlando (about 240,000 inhabitants), and the state capital of Tallahassee (about 180,000 inhabitants).

The largest urban agglomerations in the state of Florida were formed around Miami (about 5,570,000 people, eighth place in the list of US metropolitan areas), Tampa (more than 2,790,000 people, nineteenth place), Orlando (about 2,140,000 people, twenty-sixth place), and Jacksonville (about 1,350,000 people, forty-eighth place).

The Racial Composition of the Florida Population

The racial composition of the population of the state of Florida

  • White: 75.0%
  • African American: 16.0%
  • Asians: about 2.4%
  • Native Americans (Indians or Eskimos of Alaska): about 0.4%
  • Native Hawaiian or Oceanian: about 0.1%
  • Other races: about 3.6%
  • Two or more races (about 2.04%)
  • Hispanic or Latino (of any race): about 22.5%


The number of Florida residents classified as “Hispanic or Latino” increased by more than 57% in the decade between the 2010 and 2020 censuses.

For more than a quarter of Florida’s population, their first language is not English.

Almost twenty percent of the inhabitants of the state call their native language Spanish, and about two percent use the Creole dialect of French.

More Cubans live in Florida than anywhere else in the United States. Most Cuban communities are concentrated in the Miami and Tampa areas. There are also many immigrants from Puerto Rico, Haiti, Nicaragua, and other Latin American countries in the state.

Florida's Population
Florida’s Population

What State Is Losing the Most Population?

Currently, New York State, Philadelphia, and California are losing the most population.

Of the country’s 47 counties (with a population of 1 million or more), only four—Philadelphia, Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, and the Bronx—saw a sharp decline in the number of residents.

The country’s most populous county, Los Angeles, California, lost more than 90,000 residents last year and now has a population of 9.7 million.

Almost 143,000 residents left for other counties.

Will Florida be Gone in 2050?

Yes, I did my research.

For example, Time magazine predicts the global migration of humanity over the next 50 years and names specific places to go now.

Living on the coast or in the tropics will be impossible.

Over the next 50 years, heat and increased humidity will turn vast expanses into life-threatening conditions. We need a radical plan for the survival of mankind. Many places will be uninhabitable by 2050.

And by 2100, it will be another planet.

Scientists predict that without global migration, a third of the population will live at temperatures similar to those in the Sahara. The main migration routes are in the north.

Time also writes that the previously popular states of Florida, California, and Hawaii will be totally empty. The threat of flooding in New York due to rising sea levels is very high.

In the United States, it would be best to live in Alaska, where millions of new cities need to be built.

How Hot will Florida Be in 20 years?

Over the next 50 years, heat and increased humidity will turn vast expanses into life-threatening areas.

It turns out that the climate of 540 cities will shift more than 500 miles to the south. If humanity takes a number of measures to reduce emissions, the displacement will be 300 miles.

Scientists insist that not only measures are needed to prevent global climate change, but it is also necessary to think about how to create infrastructure that will protect the United States from flooding—dams, levees, and other structures.

Will Florida Become Too Hot to Live In?

Yes,definitely.

Florida will cease to be habitable for living organisms much sooner than expected. This will happen not only due to the evaporation of the oceans but also due to serious changes in the composition of the atmosphere.

It will be impossible to survive in Florida.

Due to its location in the tropics, one of the wettest regions in the Western Hemisphere, one day of 120-degree temperatures in Palm Beach would have been a mass casualty event.

Florida's Population
Florida’s Population

Would a Tsunami Wipe Out Florida?

Yes, it is a high possibility. The danger is great for the state of Florida.

New York is most at risk. By 2050, nearly half a million New Yorkers will be living on “land in danger.”

The danger is also great for the state of Florida. 36 of the 50 US cities most vulnerable to coastal flooding are located here.

Miami-Dade County, Florida, officials recently announced a mitigation strategy that will include “elevating homes and roads” and creating open space that will avoid flooding without compromising infrastructure.

Countries like the United States have the ability to invest in coastal protection projects, but most developing countries don’t have that luxury.

Thus, whether any city disappears under the sea in the near future depends not only on the rate of sea level rise but also on the ability of the authorities to solve the problem and develop a long-term defense.


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