California No Longer ‘A Magnet’ as Growth Slows, Census Shows

California saw higher growth in its inland cities and counties than on the coast and found double-digit increases in its Asian and Hispanic populations over the past decade, according to 2010 Census data released today.

In Los Angeles, the state’s largest city, the population climbed 2.6 percent to 3.8 million since 2000. In San Diego, the population rose 6.9 percent to 1.3 million. San Jose saw an increase of 5.7 percent to 945,942 and San Francisco’s population rose 3.7 percent to 805,235, during the same period, census data showed.