In the last year California has added 309,000 new residents and now has a 0.78 percent growth rate. With the new growth rate California now has a total population of 39,810,00 people. California has also added 85,000 more housing units to hold our growing population. 13,890 of the 85,000 housing units went to the most populated, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose hold the spots for the most populated cities in California. As for most growth in the last year, percent wise, Chino Hills have led the population growth for the last year with 4.6 percent. Dublin and Newark both follow Chino Hills with about a 3.9 percent increase.

Population Growth is always good, as long as our environment can withstand the increase. More people means either more people to keep the earth green or more people to terrorize it or maybe even both. When it comes to population change, you are never too sure how it will affect the environment, that is all based on humans themselves. But there will be an increase of air pollution due to the increase of cars and people with bad habits like smoking and such. Littering will increase, especially in California’s city areas there seems to be a tendency to litter and trash the surroundings.