Posted on 10/13/2020 11:35:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Change of address data from the United States Postal Service reveals that 15.9 million people moved between February and July this year.
How many people actually moved because of the pandemic? Though it’s hard to know movers’ exact motivations, new data reveals migration patterns during the height of Covid-19 lockdowns in most states.
Change of address data from the United States Postal Service reveals that 15.9 million people moved between February and July this year, according to MyMove, a platform that provides information for people who are relocating. MyMove analyzed data from both USPS and a Pew Research Center survey of 10,000 U.S. adults that was conducted in July.
Whether the newly relocated will stay in their new homes is less clear: The number of people who permanently moved was up by just 4 percent from the same period in 2019, while temporary moves rose by a more substantial 27 percent. Those temporary moves spiked in March and April, suggesting that people decided to be with family or relocated to a second home during the lockdowns.
“About a quarter (28%) told us [they chose to move] because they feared getting Covid-19 if they stayed where they were living,” said D’Vera Cohn, who authored the Pew survey. “About a fifth (20%) said they wanted to be with their family, or their college campus closed (23%). A total of 18% gave financial reasons, including job loss.”
The USPS data also showed that many people who moved left densely populated urban areas in favor of less-densely populated areas.
Manhattan saw the biggest increase in moves, with 110,978 people departing — a 500 percent increase compared to the same period in 2019. Brooklyn followed, losing 43,006 people during the same time period. Residents of Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Naples, Florida, Washington, D.C. and Houston also saw large drops in population during that period.
While it remains to be seen if the urban-to-suburban exodus will be a long-term thing, USPS data shows that many city dwellers did relocate to smaller, less urban areas. Two suburbs of Houston — Katy and Richmond — gained 4,400 and 3,000 new residents, respectively.
East Hampton, New York, also saw an influx of nearly 2,500 residents. In March, as government-mandated lockdowns set in, real estate brokers in the Hamptons said that a run on pricey rentals led to bidding wars for some properties.
The exodus from Manhattan led to a historic vacancy rate of 5 percent in September after setting a new record for each of the four preceding months.
If the vacancy rate stays that high, it could potentially lead to the repeal of the city’s rent regulations, which depends on a vacancy rate below 5 percent. That threshold, however, is set by legislators, and a new Housing & Vacancy Survey is not scheduled to be conducted until 2022.
RE: Loss in Naples not good for GOP in Florida.
Well, if they are moving WITHIN Florida, there’s no loss for the GOP.
When you read “how many people moved,” I believe the USPS is really counting accounts, right? If people take their entire family, those 110,978 New Yorkers who changed their address could represent almost 111,000 people.
Hee hee hee. Because they’re all singles. No-one in Manhattan marries or has children.
When you read “how many people moved,” I believe the USPS is really counting accounts, right? If people take their entire family, those 110,978 New Yorkers who changed their address could represent almost 111,000 people.
Hee hee hee. Because they’re all singles. No-one in Manhattan marries or has children.
Ugh....they’re ALL coming to my neck of the woods :(
I have a bumper sticker on my car that says....
Don’t Vote For What You Fled.....VOTE RED!
Vote Republican!!!
Maybe they died.
Seriously, I talked to a guy that paid for leads on low mileage, higher end cars from the Naples area. The rich people leave their cars down there in the summer when they are up north. They pay to have a guy come to their house and take the car for a spin and keep the car maintained for when the rich guy returns in the winter. Well, sometimes the rich guy does not return. Then the widow needs to sell the Porsche, Lexus, etc.
There are a lot of rich old people in Naples.
Think of it as the covid of cities.
My nephew moved to Texas to work with Tesla. Covid shut that income stream down.
He is now flipping houses just north of Dallas.
Making net...net...50-100,000 per flip.
What’s going on in Naples? I thought it was a destination.
Several million college students living on campus had to move back home.
Doesn't snow their?
Good reason to get out of town.
More evidence of why we have so many more Biden signs than we did Hillary signs here in Texas. These liberals are like locusts spreading their destruction with them.
Too many New Yorkers have infested?
I believe there is a boom in new housing around southwest Florida.
Naples has a lot of millionaires. Could be people with more modest incomes are moving to less expensive housing in the same general area.
I just emailed my neighbor, who moved four years ago. Arrived just in time for Hurricane Irma!
Little bit surprised about Houston. But it’s not what it was, I suppose.
The lower half of Florida is probably underwater 100 years from now, “climate change” or not.
Climate change is real, you can see its effects by comparing the lands described in the Bible from then to now - the question is, how much does human activity contribute to it.
Too bad about Leander, now they are going to screw that place up, they will probably restrict people from riding the twisted sisters because of the “noise”.
We moved from California to Florida during COVID and now we’re registered to vote here! From two wasted votes to two helpful votes!
the usps is now in the ‘data analytics business’ too ?? wtf
no wonder they are so overwhelmed .
the usps is now in the ‘data analytics business’ too ??
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I doubt it as this is data from their address system which
has to be updated every time a person moves, changes
mailing address, etc.
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