Eau Claire County Bucks State Population Trend

Within a few decades, Wisconsin will start to shrink, the state Department of Administration says. Don’t blame Ozempic or some fad diet. The shrinking won’t happen to our waistlines: It will be our population that will begin to diminish, state demographers estimated in a report released in early January. The projections are based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 headcount and forecast populations across the state in 2030, 2040, and 2050.

Wisconsin’s population is expected to be somewhat stable during the current decade, but will begin to decrease slightly in the 2030s and 2040s. While the state had nearly 5.9 million people in the 2020 census, that figure is projected to decline to around 5.7 million by 2050...