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Of the 58 counties in California, 14 are governed under a charter. They are Alameda, Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Tehama. [ 6] Nine counties in California are named for saints, tied with Louisiana for the largest number.
Demographics of California. Population pyramid of California in 2019. Population. 38,940,231 (2023) [ 1] California is the most populated U.S. state, with an estimated population of 38.9 million as of 2023. [ 1] It has people from a wide variety of ethnic, racial, national, and religious backgrounds.
The population of the forty-eight counties of northern California has shown a steady increase over the years. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] The largest percentage increase outside the Gold Rush era (52%) came during the 1940s, as the region was the destination of many post-War veterans and their families, attracted by the greatly expanding industrial base and ...
Here are the 10 counties in California that gained the most population between July 2021 and July 2022. Yolo County: +4.26%. Merced County: +1.95%. Santa Cruz County: +1.49%. Santa Barbara County ...
Many of the most populous counties listed are in Southern California, Illinois, Texas and New York and roughly correspond to the most populous cities in the United States. Counties in the Western United States are typically larger by area, so they often have higher raw populations even with comparable population densities.
California's three most populous counties, meanwhile, all experienced population loss: Los Angeles lost 70,114 people, San Diego lost 1,197 and Orange lost 7,297.
Butte County (/ ˈ b j uː t / ⓘ) is a county located in the northern central part of the U.S. state of California. In the 2020 census , its population was 211,632. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The county seat is Oroville .
Riverside County is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,418,185, [ 3][ 5] making it the fourth-most populous county in California and the 10th-most populous in the United States. The name was derived from the city of Riverside, which is the county seat.