Art Hall, executive director of the Center for Applied Economics at the KU School of Business, said he uncovered three key themes to American population shifts by looking at annual data collected by the Internal Revenue Service on county-to-county migration:
He found that...
- Populations are relocating to coastal areas (with the major exception that inhabitants for the first time are taking flight from California's prohibitively priced seaboard)
- People are moving out from major metropolises to smaller cities
- The general migration trend in the U.S. now is eastward rather than westward
"In a sense, the exurbs are what's happening. What you'll see is that folks are moving out of the city cores into the periphery. They're willing to move away from the big cities into the medium-sized metropolitan areas."
Monday, September 28, 2009
American migration trends
Americans are constantly moving, but where are they going?
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If this is true, then DC must be an exception to the rule:
ReplyDelete"Americans tame their wanderlust
Census Bureau statistics show that fewer Americans are uprooting. And when they do move, they're favoring D.C. (The city, not the region), Alaska and Texas."
CNN Money
"(The city, not the region)"
ReplyDeletewhere is this information? I believe everyone is moving to gaithersburg or centerville and they call it "moving to dc"
"where is this information? I believe everyone is moving to gaithersburg or centerville and they call it "moving to dc""
ReplyDeleteNope. This is on a state by state basis and the article has rates for all 51 (including DC) states. The movements in gaithersburg and centerville go to the MD & VA numbers. DC is just for DC proper which is a clear #1.
small populations in these places convert modest in-migration increases into large percentage gains.
"small populations in these places convert modest in-migration increases into large percentage gains."
ReplyDeletewell that explains it then. 10 new people move into DC and its big news, the recession is over!!
Yep - 5 people live there, 10 more move in, prices triple. Its common sense.
ReplyDelete"where is this information?"
ReplyDeleteNot very astute, are you?
Man what a load of crap that CNN link was.
ReplyDeleteReading that everyone is moving from the most populated areas to Alaska and DC is pretty retarded.
I mean the entire population of DC and Alaska put together is probably one single street in NY, Miami, LA or Chicago. What a joke.