All of the United States’ net population growth between 2022 and 2023 was due to immigration, according to the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. It’s the first time population influx from immigration has outpaced native births since the Census began to collect data on nativity in 1850,

Metro Detroit’s tri-county region carried the state’s population growth last year, accounting for about 54% of the state’s growth, according to newly released U.S. Census estimates. Oakland, Wayne and Macomb counties grew by a combined 30,