In the Laredo metro area, on the Texas border, immigration screeched to a virtual standstill.
El Centro, a metro that has historically served as a desert gateway into California, lost more people to other countries than it gained.
In Denver and its suburbs, the net immigration rate fell by almost three-quarters. In the Chicago area, it was slashed by nearly two-thirds.
Every metro area in the United States, in fact, experienced lower immigration rates during the year leading up to July 2025 compared with the previous year, according to new estimates released on Thursday by the Census Bureau.
In about 75 percent of all counties, overall population growth — including immigration, domestic migration, births and deaths — either slowed or turned negative. Only 25 percent grew faster.
And large urban counties and border counties, which had experienced a surge in new arrivals in recent years, were among the hardest-hit parts of the country.
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The numbers also captured the continuing effect of declining birthrates, as deaths outnumbered births in about two-thirds of U.S. counties. It is a sign that many communities are still struggling to keep their population levels up, even as the impact of Covid-related deaths has waned.
The nation’s overall population still increased last year by 1.8 million people, but the combination of low birthrates and dramatically slowing immigration led to one of the slowest growth rates in U.S. history.
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Some of the strongest population gains came in suburban counties, especially in the South, which continued to grow rapidly as they attracted people from other parts of the country.
About 18,000 people moved into Pasco County, Fla., a suburban community about 30 miles outside Tampa, enough to increase its population by nearly 2.8 percent.
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In Webb County, Texas, which includes Laredo, net international migration dropped by about 95 percent. It gained fewer than 700 people total in the new estimates.
San Diego County in California lost about 5,300 people. Net international migration fell to about 6,100, from about 18,000 in the previous year.
In big metro areas, which have long sustained themselves through immigration, population growth also slowed or declined outright.
Los Angeles, the country’s most populous county, experienced a loss of nearly 54,000 residents. In Miami-Dade County, the population shrank by more than 10,000 people, after growing by over 64,000 residents the year before. New York City also experienced a decline of about 12,200.
Some of those counties lost residents to other parts of the United States, a trend that has been ongoing for years. But immigration was a major driver of the decline. Net international migration across all those urban counties fell to about 932,000 from about two million.
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