Orange County welcomes new residents from across the Nation. As you can see in the blue lines in the map below, people from the Great Lake states and North East are a strong source of migrants to the County. While Orange County’s out migration has exceeded in-migration in 2007 and 2008, it began to reverse in 2009 and that trend is now being see in California as a whole.
Antidotal evidence from the moving industry indicates that in 2012 the companies are seeing an equal number of moves into the State than out and in some cases more families moving to California than leaving.
The OC Register wrote last week about 2011 data showing an inbound trend of movers into the state of California from moving companies Allied Van Lines, United Van Lines and Atlas Van Lines.
- Allied handled 6,574 moves to California last year, up 8 percent vs. 2010 — as well as 6,227 moved away from the Golden State, virtually unchanged in a year. That’s a net gain of 347!
- At United Van Lines, 16,292 of its moves were to California, a 4% increase vs. 2010. Moves away from California totaled 14,758 — down 1% in a year.
- Then there’s Atlas Van Lines, which handled last year 7,803 moves to California, a 9% increase vs. 2010. Its moves away from California totaled 6,758 — up 4% in a year.
Another storage and moving company interviewed for the article is attributing the trend to prices coming back to reasonable levels. Linda Oakley, vice president of Atlas Transfer and Storage:
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