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The Gavin Newsom Effect: More People are Moving from California U-Haul Reports

August 25, 2025 8:00 amAugust 25, 2025 4:05 pm

It’s starting to feel like Groundhog Day. Every nationwide report has bad news for California whether it’s CEOs or U-Haul rentals for moves to other states. As we reported in July, California lost 361,623 residents and $20,915,598,000 in income to...

The Gavin Newsom Effect: U-Haul Reports Californians Leaving the State in Droves

July 22, 2025 9:12 amJuly 22, 2025 9:13 am

With California Governor Gavin Newsom blatantly denying that California is losing residents and businesses to many other states, and that the state’s outbound migration exceeds inbound migration, it’s time to refresh U-Haul’s January report showing that more Californians rented one-way...

New Study Reports California Leads the Country in Most Moved-Out-of Cities

May 27, 2025 2:31 pmMay 27, 2025 2:31 pm

According to a new study by the moving and storage company Pods, seven of the top twenty cities in the country where people are moving out of are in California, with Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area being...

The Gavin Newsom Effect: U-Haul Reports Californians Leaving the State in Droves

January 5, 2025 9:10 amJanuary 5, 2025 9:15 am

U-Haul has a new report out and once again – for the fifth year in a row – the once Golden State finished on top of the U-Haul Growth Index – meaning more Californians rented one-way U-Haul trucks to leave...

56% Of Californians Have Considered A Move Away From California According To A New Poll

October 18, 2024 12:49 pmOctober 20, 2024 7:44 pm

A new poll of California residents released this week found that 56% of Californians have considered moving away from the state, with the main reason being cost of living. California’s state population nearly reached 40 million in the 2010’s, but...

California Dreamin’ becomes California Leavin’

June 10, 2024 2:25 pmJune 10, 2024 3:41 pm

Californians are moving out. Still. “The top states Californians were leaving for – as we’ve become accustomed to, Florida and Texas, North and South Carolina and Tennessee,” the Globe reported in January. “U-Haul reports that Idaho, Washington, Arizona, Colorado and...

California Shows First Population Gain Since 2020

April 16, 2024 1:43 pmApril 16, 2024 1:43 pm

Chief Demographer of California Walter Schwarm announced on Monday that the population of California will rebound for the first time since 2020. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, California’s population that year was at roughly 39.5 million. However, due in part...