Rankings · Migration

Lowest domestic migration rate by state

Net domestic migration per 1,000 residents.

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

Census PEP. Counts people moving between US counties only, so it excludes international arrivals — a county can be growing overall while losing domestic movers, which is the pattern across most large coastal metros. A rate rather than a count, so counties of different sizes compare. Open a profile for the full year-by-year counts. Withheld for counties under 1,000 residents: a handful of events on a denominator that small produces a rate that is arithmetically correct and practically meaningless.

  1. 1New York-7
  2. 2Hawaii-6
  3. 3Alaska-6
  4. 4District of Columbia-6
  5. 5California-6
  6. 6Massachusetts-5
  7. 7New Jersey-4
  8. 8Illinois-3
  9. 9Louisiana-3
  10. 10Colorado-2
  11. 11Maryland-2
  12. 12Connecticut-2
  13. 13Rhode Island-1
  14. 14New Mexico-1
  15. 15Vermont-1
  16. 16Iowa-0
  17. 17Mississippi-0
  18. 18Kansas-0
  19. 19Nebraska-0
  20. 20Pennsylvania-0
  21. 21Michigan0
  22. 22Oregon1
  23. 23North Dakota1
  24. 24Virginia1
  25. 25Utah1
  26. 26Florida1
  27. 27Ohio1
  28. 28Washington1
  29. 29Wisconsin1
  30. 30Minnesota1
  31. 31Kentucky2
  32. 32Indiana2
  33. 33Texas2
  34. 34Missouri2
  35. 35South Dakota2
  36. 36Georgia2
  37. 37Wyoming3
  38. 38Oklahoma4
  39. 39West Virginia4
  40. 40Arizona4
  41. 41Alabama5
  42. 42New Hampshire5
  43. 43Nevada5
  44. 44Arkansas5
  45. 45Maine5
  46. 46Montana6
  47. 47Tennessee6
  48. 48Delaware7
  49. 49North Carolina8
  50. 50Idaho10
  51. 51South Carolina12
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. · How this is built