Michigan has seen sluggish population growth over the past five years. The state gained an estimated 48,522 residents between the 2020 Census and July 2025, going from a population of 10,079,362 to 10 ...

Michigan grew ever so slightly between 2022 and 2023, but new data released Thursday from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that not all counties grew evenly — or at all. Ottawa and Kent counties were the ...

A stagnant and aging population threatens Michigan's long-term prosperity, particularly as younger, well-educated residents leave and cause the state to fall further behind in the decades ahead, ...

Michigan jumped two places among states on one measure of population migration in 2023, though it remains near the bottom of the ranking as Texas and Florida continue to dominate. Michigan ranked 46th ...

Lansing — Michigan's population is expected to decline or slow in growth through 2030 after the Great Lakes State recorded its fifth consecutive year of more people dying than being born. The ...

In Michigan, state leaders are hoping to solve a problem that could have wide-ranging effects on its future −the recent decline of the state population. Since 2020, the last time the once-in-a-decade ...

The number of residents 65 years and older in the region is expected to grow by nearly 148,000 from 2020 to 2030, or 22%.

Michigan's first-ever chief growth officer Hilary Doe, appointed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer about two years ago to focus on reversing the state's sluggish population growth, recently left her post in ...