UNITED VAN LINES 2012 MIGRATION STUDY REVEALS NORTHEASTERN U.S. EXODUS

United Van Lines ^ | 01/05/2013

[SeekAndFind]

ST. LOUIS- The Northeast region leads the United States in outbound migration, according to the results of United Van Lines’ 36th annual “migration” study, which tracks which states the company’s customers move to and from during the course of the year. Washington, D.C., continues to lead the nation in inbound moves based on the study findings released today, which analyzed moves from the full year 2012.

“As the nation’s largest household goods mover, United’s data is an accurate reflection of the overall U.S. moving trends,” explained Carl Walter, vice president of United Van Lines. “Tracking the number of inbound and outbound domestic moves helps provide insight into overall migration trends.”

United has tracked migration patterns annually on a state-by-state basis since 1977. For 2012, the study is based on all household moves handled by United within the 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C. United classifies states as “high inbound” if 55 percent or more of the moves are going into a state and “high outbound” if 55 percent or more moves were coming out of a state or “balanced” if the difference of inbound and outbound is negligible.

MOVING IN

The top-five inbound states of 2012 were:

1. District of Columbia
2. Oregon
3. Nevada
4. North Carolina
5. South Carolina
   
   

This is the fifth consecutive year the District of Columbia (64 percent) was the top moving destination in the United States.

The Western United States is also represented on the high-inbound list with Oregon (61 percent) and Nevada (58 percent) both making the list. Oregon is number two for inbound migration for the third year in a row. Nevada returned to the high inbound traffic for the second consecutive year.

The Carolinas each made the top five with North Carolina at 56 percent and South Carolina at 55 percent inbound moves.

“The United Van Lines Annual Migration study shows the movement of people from frost belt to more sun belt states in the South and West,” said Michael Stoll, economist, professor and chair of the Department of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. “While big states such as California, Texas and Florida have more total moves than other states because of their sheer size, other high inbound states such as Washington, D.C., Oregon and the Carolinas may be attractive places to move because of their lower housing costs, more temperate climate, diversified and growing economies, as well as maturing manufacturing bases and high technology clusters.”

MOVING OUT

The top-five outbound states for 2012 were:

1. New Jersey
2. Illinois
3. West Virginia
4. New York
5. New Mexico
   
   

New Jersey (62 percent) displaced the outbound leader from last year, Illinois (60 percent) reclaiming the top spot for high-outbound migration that it held in 2010.

The Northeast is the most well-represented region on the high-outbound traffic list. In addition to New Jersey, New York (58 percent), Maine (56 percent) and Connecticut (56 percent) are also included.

Michigan (58 percent) and Wisconsin (55 percent) along with Illinois represented the Great Lakes region. Michigan fell to the No. 6 from the No. 4 spot it held in 2011. Previously, it had claimed the top outbound spot every year from 2006-2009.

Kentucky (55 percent) joined West Virginia (58 percent) as the only Southern states to appear on the high outbound list. New Mexico (58 percent) was the only Western state to appear on the list.

BALANCED

Several states gained approximately the same number of residents as those that left. Those states include Louisiana, Iowa, Indiana, North Dakota, New Hampshire and Maryland.

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[yldstrk]

I am going to Alabama or Mississippi

[rightly_dividing]

Play around with this interactive map of people moving, it show exodus from liberal areas to conservative areas mostly:

http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-interactive-counties-map.html

[old gringo]

i was groan before i found out damnyankee was two words.

[M1903A1]

Illinois doesn’t surprise me at all...Wisconsin sort of does.

[rightly_dividing]

When my wife’s company moved us to Houston from Mobile Al, IIRC, they paid over $17K to the moving van co, and that was with us doing the boxing and prep work. And they don’t carry plants in conatainers, paint, HazMat, welding bottles, lawn equipment had to have drained gas tanks, no LP gas tanks or gasoline cans.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I can say without qualification that I have never, in my remembered life, seen as many U-Hauls on the road as in the last two years.

I'm not sure where they are all going, but there are a lot of people going somewhere with all their wordly goods packed up.

  

The Westward Migration

It's happened before, it'll happen again...

Regards,
GtG

[az_gila]

A fuller database from the Census folks here -

http://www.census.gov/hhes/migration/data/acs/state-to-state.html

Harder to sort out the big picture though...

[Just another Joe]

I’ve been thinking lately about the Okies moving out of the dust bowl heading ANYWHERE else.

[yoe]

Thanks for the map...truly interesting!

[SuperLuminal]

Bad news! Recieving all these marxist-supporting immigrants from the NE simply dilutes and, eventually, dooms the red state to becoming a mirror image of the originatng blue state.

One solution is to require passports from all marxist states...and never issue any. Sort of like MD does with the concealed-carry license...

OTOH, encourage all private enterprise with no ties to dear leader to emigrate into the red states.

[SuziQ]

And the sad part about the Northeasterners moving into North and South Carolina is that they start trying to change the states into the liberal hell-holes they moved to escape!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It’ happened all over the west...Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, and Colorado. They are trying to get footholds in AZ and ID now, too.

Rugged individual Westerners with frontier and pioneer spirit would never have gone that way without in-migration from liberal cesspools.

[Amberdawn]

Not all NE’ers are liberal. There are quite a few conservatives here, and they might be your new neighbors, so take heart.

[QT3.14]

Recieving all these marxist-supporting immigrants from the
NE simply dilutes and, eventually, dooms the red state to
becoming a mirror image of the originatng blue state.

Yep! The process started long ago.

Invasion of the Conservative Snatchers

[nutmeg]

And the sad part about the Northeasterners moving into North and South Carolina is that they start trying to change the states into the liberal hell-holes they moved to escape!

I really fear this could happen, too. My husband and I are hoping (within the next few years if possible) to get the heck out of The People's Socialist Republik of Connecticut. So far South Carolina is #1 on our list.

Last time we were there, we met a LOT of people who had recently re-located there from the north, particularly from Ohio. Made me a bit uneasy... I just hope they're conservatives (I couldn't tell).

That's all we would need... to spend a ton of $$$ re-locating to a Red State, only to find out it has turned into a Blue or Purple State. :-(

[nutmeg]

Interesting map... thank you!

[rightly_dividing]

You're welcome, but actually I first saw that on FR(where else?) a year ago or more, but didn't save it. The real credit goes to some other FReeper, whom I can't remember, for first finding it. I was fortunate to find it again by searching for it the other day.

But you are right, it is very interesting to play with.

[SuziQ]

Oh, I do know quite a few conservatives, but sadly, we don’t have much political sway in the Commonwealth.

[Amberdawn]

I hear you. :(

[buckalfa]

"That's all we would need... to spend a ton of $$$ re-locating to a Red State, only to find out it has turned into a Blue or Purple State."

IMO, South Carolina will be deep purple like North Carolina within eight years. The generations that built South Carolina's conservative reputation are dying off. Immigrants from other states and nations bring their political views. SC's economy statewide is poor(we are basically Mexico to BMW, Michelin,and Boeing). The state GOP talks the conservative talk but are nothing more than tax and spend despots. Add in huge unfunded state/local governmental pensions and looming unfunded Federal mandates, no wonder that South Carolina is listed among the fiscal death spiral states in Forbes magazine. This of course will lead to more Federal dependency and constituents of the Progressives. Not to say that SC has not had a great run however. Mississippi or Alabama look like the states that will stay Red the longest.