As at the beginning of every New Year, Atlas Van Lines reviews interstate moves during the previous years to determine relocation patters.
In 2010 there was an increase in household interstate moves!
How do Atlas Van lines classify the states?
- Each state/province has a threshold value, which is the total number of shipments multiplied by 0.55.
- If 55% of moves leave a state it’s classified as outbound
- If 55% of arrive in a state it’s classified as inbound.
- All other states are balanced.
Residents were lost in the Midwest while Mideast states and the Southwest gained. For the first time, Kentucky joined North Carolina, Maryland, and Washington D.C. as an inbound state.
The highest percentage of inbound moves was, as in the past four years, to Washington, D.C. Ohio won the accolade of having the highest percentage of outbound moves. 
Atlas Van Lines Other lists the following trends in its report:
“Westward-ho! Much of the West continues in a balanced state. For the first time in three years, Idaho moves from an outbound state to a balanced state, joining California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Montana, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona.
Déjà vu! For several states, economic ups and downs have had little influence on the number of residents moving in or out of that state. For ten or more years, six states — California, Alaska, North Carolina, Kansas, South Carolina, and Indiana — have remained constant in their inbound, outbound or balanced status in Atlas' annual study.
Silver lining! Despite high foreclosure rates and poor housing sales, a large pocket of southeastern states — including Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina — saw no drastic increase in the number of outbound moves; in fact, they remained balanced in their number of outbound and inbound moves. A reason for the balance could be these states' popularity as a retirement destination.”
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