CLEVELAND, Ohio - Northeast Ohio’s gains from international migration enabled the area’s population to edge up last year, more than offsetting losses from people moving out of the area and the fact that deaths continue to outnumber births.

The international migration that helped drive recent Long Island population growth declined last year amid the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown, according to analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday.

Small counties in the coastal Southeast had some of the largest population gains between mid-2024 and mid-2025 in estimates being released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, mostly because of people