３カ月で２７００人転出　能登被災６市町、流出止まらず―石川

　能登半島地震で特に大きな被害を受けた石川県の６市町から別の自治体への転出が、被災３カ月で計２７５０人に上ったことが１日、分かった。転出が転入を上回る「社会減」は２２０９人で、昨年の同じ時期の約３．７倍。人口流出に歯止めがかからない現状が浮き彫りになった。
　県が１日発表した人口推計によると、３月だけで６市町から計１３５０人が転出。３カ月間の転出者は多い順に七尾市８４８人、輪島市７７０人、珠洲市３７８人、能登町２９５人、志賀町２７２人、穴水町１８７人だった。
　死亡数が出生数を上回る「自然減」を含めた６市町の人口減少は、３カ月で計３２２１人で、人口の約２．７％に相当する。（2024/05/01-15:22）

A total of 2,750 residents moved out of six municipalities in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, in the three months after the municipalities were hit hard by the Noto Peninsula earthquake on New Year's Day, it was learned Wednesday.
   Of the total, 848 people migrated from the city of Nanao, 770 from the city of Wajima, 378 from the city of Suzu, 295 from the town of Noto, 272 from the town of Shika and 187 from the town of Anamizu.
   The net outflow of residents from the six municipalities, or an excess of outflows over inflows, came to 2,209 people, up about 3.7-fold from the same period last year.
   In March alone, 1,350 residents left the six municipalities, according to demographic data released by the Ishikawa prefectural government on Wednesday.
   The six municipalities' net population decline, including an excess of deaths over births, was 3,221 people, a loss of about 2.7 pct of their population.