Rankings · Migration

Highest domestic migration by state

Net domestic migration, annual.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

Annual net movement between U.S. counties in the Census Population Estimates Program. Positive means more people arrived from elsewhere in the U.S. than left; international arrivals are separate.

  1. 1North Carolina84,064
  2. 2Texas67,299
  3. 3South Carolina66,622
  4. 4Tennessee42,389
  5. 5Arizona31,107
  6. 6Georgia27,333
  7. 7Alabama23,358
  8. 8Florida22,517
  9. 9Idaho19,915
  10. 10Nevada14,914
  11. 11Oklahoma14,492
  12. 12Arkansas14,475
  13. 13Missouri14,028
  14. 14Indiana12,197
  15. 15Ohio11,926
  16. 16Washington9,238
  17. 17Minnesota8,300
  18. 18Maine7,406
  19. 19Kentucky7,269
  20. 20Wisconsin6,984
  21. 21Delaware6,855
  22. 22New Hampshire6,554
  23. 23West Virginia6,408
  24. 24Montana6,348
  25. 25Virginia6,268
  26. 26Utah3,343
  27. 27Oregon2,228
  28. 28South Dakota2,169
  29. 29Michigan1,796
  30. 30Wyoming1,474
  31. 31North Dakota512
  32. 32Nebraska-366
  33. 33Kansas-519
  34. 34Vermont-726
  35. 35Mississippi-917
  36. 36Iowa-970
  37. 37Rhode Island-1,551
  38. 38New Mexico-2,267
  39. 39Pennsylvania-2,936
  40. 40District of Columbia-4,128
  41. 41Alaska-4,525
  42. 42Connecticut-5,945
  43. 43Hawaii-8,876
  44. 44Colorado-12,100
  45. 45Maryland-12,127
  46. 46Louisiana-14,387
  47. 47Massachusetts-33,340
  48. 48New Jersey-37,428
  49. 49Illinois-40,017
  50. 50New York-137,586
  51. 51California-229,077
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program. · How this is built