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The states people are moving to

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