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Idaho’s growth rate was 1.5%, which was the seventh-highest in the nation, the release said. Natural growth (births minus deaths) made up just 20% of the state’s population increase.

Idaho’s population grew by 1.5% – or around 30,500 people – from 2023 to 2024, based on estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau in July of those years.

Another interesting tidbit is that Idaho’s population growth peaked in 2021 at about 52,000 new residents and has since dropped to about 24,000 per year in 2023 and 2024.

In November 2022, the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students horrified residents of Moscow, a quiet college town that hadn't reported a murder in five years. The students – Ethan ...