It appears from United Van lines, the moving companies' annual migration study of where their customers are moving to, that the Southeast and Western parts of the country are where the most folks are heading when they relocate.
United has done this annual study since 1977, sort of like an NAR Buyers & Sellers survey. This study was based on 227,254 interstate moves of households buy United among the 48 continental states and Washington D.C. Each state is classified as:
- "High inbound" if 55% or more moves are going into that state.
- "High outbound" if 55% or more moves are out of that state
- "Balanced" if there are roughly equal moves both into and out of that state
High inbound Southern states in 2006 were:
- North Carolina, tops with 64% inbound moves
- South Carolina with 60.6% inbound
- Alabama with 57.5% inbound
- Tennessee, 55.8% inbound
Western states gaining more population than losing were:
- Oregon, 62.5% inbound
- Arizona, 55.4% inbound
- Nevada, 59.9%
And where were all these folks moving from???
The Central Northeastern state of:
- Michigan was tops with 66% outbound moves in 2006
- New York had 59.9% outbounders
- Indiana with 58.2%
- and Illinois with 55.7%
Heading em up and moving em out from the West, the losing states were:
- California had 52.4% outbound moves
- Missouri with 51.8%
- and Wisconsin with 53.2% outbounders
United Van Lines has over a 30% market share of the interstate moving market and feels like their annual study accuraly reflects the migration patterns of the United States as a whole excluding Hawaii and Alaska.
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