Ranked: The Cities Americans Are Moving To

Visual Capitalist ^ | 11/22/2025 | Bruno Venditti

[poconopundit]

This chart is useless without showing how many left.

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Yes, yes, cpdiii. And Boston is one place where there are 250,000 college students, so I’ll bet Boston’s numbers are heavily weighted in that direction.

[marktwain]

These numbers all come from before President Trump started his second term.

[blitz128]

Iran is finding out what population growth and water levels clash.

[blitz128]

Curious how stories of Las Vegas strip dying and supposed population growth jive.

Other than the strip what industry/jobs are available there.

[Fireone]

Never once in my life has the thought of moving to New York City ever crossed my mind.
In fact, I’d consider sleeping on a train tracks, before I’d consider that move.

[poconopundit]

Check this comment from Google Search:

There are approximately 594,000 university students in New York City attending about 110 universities and colleges. This includes students from institutions like The City University of New York (CUNY), which serves over 240,000 students, and New York University (NYU), one of the largest single-institution enrollments in the city.

So now you begin to see the holes in this Visual Capitalist headline and trying to post data without much thought about the sources.

[plain talk]

... based on new residency data from 2024 ...

[CptnObvious]

The majority of these have fled to No Cities.

With Work at Home, they choose the safer suburbs or even the countryside. Less Trama, less Drama. Often Less taxes (like Tennessee and Florida). Better retirement opportunities. Less crazy Wokism.

No, most a fleeing the cities because the Mamdani's are coming.

[Vermont Lt]

If the context of the map is to show real estate or employment trends it will just focus on new residents.

Just because it doesn’t address the context others want, doesn’t make it useless.

[packagingguy]

Exactly. Memphis, Albuquerque and Baltimore are on this list so we know it’s not just wrong, it’s psychotic.

[Starboard]

“This chart is useless without showing how many left.”

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And their economic impact on the states. Productive people that support the tax base find it easy to re-locate and take their salaries and assets with them. Just saying.