There is one competition where Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia aren’t beating other major locations in this country. It is in persuading people to stay there.

The Census Bureau this month released its estimates on the populations for each American county as of July 1, 2023. In a release about this data, the agency included a table listing the 10 counties with the largest one-year decline in population as of that date.

Los Angeles County ranked first, as this writer reported for the Daily Caller News Foundation. As of July 1, 2022, it had a population of 9,719,765. By July 1, 2023, that had dropped to 9,663,345.