Wyoming’s census numbers have leveled off. After seeing a net annual migration that was near 10-thousand people a year from 2006 to 2009, Wyoming saw about 45-hundred new people move into the state last year.
Economist Wenlin Liu of the Wyoming Economic Analysis Division says economic improvement elsewhere has reduced the number of people coming to Wyoming looking for work.
“The main reason is that the rest of the nation had an economic recovery. We had a lot less immigrants moving into the state from California and Michigan."
In 2011, Goshen County’s population grew the fastest at two-point-two percent. Albany County saw an increase of one-point-six percent.