As Florida ’s population passes 23 million for the first metre ever , the Sunshine State may have to interchange its name to the Twilight State someday soon – not for a sudden inflow in sparkly lamia , but retiree .

allot toa reportreleased Friday by the state ’s Demographic Estimating Conference , there were 23,002,597 people living in the state as of April 1 this year . It ’s a remarkable increase on the 20 million residents reportedback in 2015 , and comes thanks to an one-year addition of between 300,000 and 380,000 every year for the past decade .

With data showing an increase of365,205 in 2023 alone , Florida has cement its place as the state with the second - great population growth by both percentage ( beaten only by South Carolina ) and sensitive numbers ( beaten only by Texas ) .

Much of this growth comes from a not - unexpected source : boomers . Florida is famously popular with retirees from out of state – in fact , one written report from 2023 make Florida themost democratic statein the country for baby boomers look to relocate – and with almost one in ten house physician past the historic period of 75 , it ’s also home to thesecond - large universe percentageof elderly folks in the land , accord to 2023 census data .

But that maturation is not project to bear on at such pace . dying have been outpacing nascence in the state – a trend which has been continuous since late 2019 and early 2020 – and that ’s auspicate to continue for quite some time . Meanwhile , the flow rate of retirees is set to slacken down by the close of the X , as the final age group of boomers go in retreat ( Generation X , the next demographic group by age , is much smaller universe - heady and less well - off , so taking up the rein of the Florida retreat industriousness may not be on the cards for them . )

It ’s not all golden golden oldie agitate the universe up , however . The state is also the second - most democratic destination for middle - course Millennials look to move , andmore than one in fiveFloridians were born outside of the US . Higher immigrant population generally correlate to young demographic – those are the people who come with small fry , after all – and it may be thanks to them thatfour of the five quickest - develop metropolitan areasin the US were found to be in Florida this class .

And not all immigrant to Florida are from outside the US . Nearly three - poop of the 2023 universe step-up came from people go from other states – chief among which was New York , who said “ so long , and right luck in Florida ” to some 91,000 people this year . That ’s more than the number descend from California and Georgia , who pack the 2d and third bit respectively , combined .

So , keep your eye discase , folks – there ’s never been more Florida Men and Women than there are now . Whatatimeto bealive .