New census data reveals where people are moving to — and from. And it reveals one exception to current trends: Manhattan.

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By Robert Gebeloff, Dana Goldstein and Stefanos Chen

The number of immigrants nearly tripled in the nation’s 20 most populous counties from 2021 to 2022, as immigration returned to prepandemic levels nationally, the Census Bureau reported on Thursday.

But many of these counties are still losing residents to suburbs, exurbs and other regions of the country, and, like the rest of the nation, they are feeling the brunt of the nation’s low birthrate.

Those trends emerged from the latest figures in counties nationwide, revealing that the country is growing slowly, but that many communities are struggling to maintain population levels.

Los Angeles County in California, Cook County, which includes Chicago, in Illinois, and the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York all lost population, but the loss was smaller than in 2021.

And the census data shows that metro areas in the Sunbelt, including Phoenix, Houston, Dallas and Tampa, continued to draw a large share of Americans who relocated.

Annual Population Change in the United States

Per 1,000 people

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