Thursday, August 27, 2015
According to Census data, nearly 20 percent of all movers in the United States and Puerto Rico, or about 8.5 million people, have moved to a different metropolitan area in the last year. These “metro movers” are relocating from metro area to metro area, with the majority moving between metros within the United States. A fraction of movers–approximately 25,000–moved from a metro area in the United States to a metro area in Puerto Rico.Movers relocating between the metro areas of Los Angeles and Riverside, Calif. and the metro areas of New York and Philadelphia were among the largest migration flows.
“Nine of the top 10 metro migration flows were moves to nearby metro areas, with the largest flow of about 90,000 moving from the Los Angeles metro to the Riverside metro area,” says Kin Koerber, a demographer with the Census Bureau’s Journey-to-Work and Migration Statistics Branch. “Movers who left the New York City metro area for the Miami metro area were the exception, with about 22,000 people making this move.”
According to the data, just over five percent of the U.S. population, or 16.7 million people, now live in a different county within the U.S. than one year earlier.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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