No growth? Southern California population’s getting close

Southern California fans of “slow growth” are getting their wish: Local population barely advanced in 2019.
When I put into my trusty spreadsheet new population counts from the state’s Department of Finance, I found the region’s seven Southern California counties (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Imperial and Ventura) added just 48,405 residents in the year ended in July.
This slim 0.2% growth brought the total population to 22.3 million, or a mi