Is El Dorado County, CA's population growing or shrinking?
Refreshed annually
It shrank by 48 between 2024 and 2025. Changes in population reflect birth and death rates, immigration patterns, regional shifts, and even the overall health of the economy. El Dorado County, CA’s 0.02% annual decrease was primarily driven by deaths outpacing births.
In the decade between 2015 and 2025, El Dorado County, CA’s population grew by 4.2%.
-48
population change (2024 to 2025)
-0.02%
percent change in population (2024 to 2025)
Since 2000, El Dorado County, CA’s population increased 19 out of 25 years. The largest increase occurred between 2001 and 2002, when El Dorado County, CA gained 3,800 residents. Its largest decline occurred between 2019 and 2020 when there were 1,800 fewer residents.
El Dorado County, CA lost 48 residents between 2024 and 2025.
Annual population change, 2001–2025
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What contributes to population change in El Dorado County, CA?
A county’s population is influenced by three factors:
- Natural population change: If births outnumber deaths in a given year, natural population growth is positive. If deaths exceed births, it is negative. Between 2024 and 2025 natural population change was negative in El Dorado County, CA, with deaths exceeding births by 356.
- Immigration: international migration directly into or out of a county: If more people move in than move out, population change from immigration is positive. If more people move out than move in, it’s negative. Between 2024 to 2025, El Dorado County, CA’s population change from immigration was positive with about 167 more people coming from another country directly to El Dorado County, CA than leaving.
- Domestic migration, moving between counties: Between 2024 to 2025, El Dorado County, CA’s population change from domestic migration was positive with about 140 more people coming from any other county in the US.
Between 2024 and 2025, natural change was the primary driver of population decline in El Dorado County, CA.
Components of population change from previous year, 2011–2025
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