Where Americans moved in 2024
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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It has been decades since I’ve seen any source with WV in the net positive.
Dam, North Dakota lost half its population. Must be tough up there.
-291 in ND is just so oddly specific it makes me laugh. Even funnier once you realize that less than 1M people live there to begin with.
861 person for WY?
NC has looked like a version of that for decades. ‘Late ’80s to early ’00s, I think Charlotte was the fastest growing city in the country, for, like, 14 years in a row or something. Once worked with an older guy who was from upstate NY. Said when all the big companies started closing up shop up north, they all started moving south. NC was the place they all spoke about moving to, according to him.
I love NY but it is so expensive. I don’t want to leave but I do understand why people are feeling priced out
Good time to be a cold weather enthusiast if these net outflows in the north translate into lower cost of living
Non-American here. What is so attractive about the Carolinas?
Can we get this in percentage change?
NW Arkansas has exploded since I left MO in 2008. Flew in to Fayetteville over the holidays. Went to dinner in downtown Bentonville. Highest concentration of hipsters I have ever seen in my life.
It’s like high and low pressure systems. Humans naturally migrate away from high pressure and towards lower. Something something perfectly balanced
Noticing a theme here
861.
Wyoming has so few they know the exact number.
*sighs in Tennessean
“Well F you too” from Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont who didn’t seem to be important enough for this map
Note: this map only measures migration between states. California’s population grew by nearly 240,000 people between July 2023-July 2024, according to the census bureau ([source](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-12-23/california-population-increase-2024-census)). But most of that was from immigrants gaining citizenship
Houston is so overcrowded we had to add another area code, despite getting a new one just a few years ago. We’re bursting at the seams. It’s insane
Georgia, lower than all her neighbors, still number 8
I have an older family member who keeps complaining about all the people moving into Wyoming and how all the open spaces will soon be gone. That net gain of 861 people across 98K square miles must have that whole state looking like Manhattan.
People are going to low cost of living places- and raising the cost of living for the people barely getting by already.
I feel like percentages would be better, of course the numbers in NY and CA will be higher because there are more people in those states
Map needs to be based on per-capita shift
I can place a solid bet that most of the people going to Alabama are heading straight to Huntsville. That is the only city in Alabama that has a industry that’s worth a damn in that state.
Don’t forget redditors who moved into their mom’s basement or out, that should be a new demographic to keep.
Migration for other states to California jacked up the cost of living so much that people had to leave but not that they are not going back to where they came from other than Washington and Texas and even then, in smaller numbers than the left those states.
[https://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/051/](https://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/051/)
Not suprising. North Carolina is actually a pretty lovely place and offers a good quality of life at a much more affordable cost of living than someplace like California.
As inflation rises and homes become unaffordable, US citizens are leaving high cost of living areas for low cost of living areas. Tune in tomorrow where we talk about water being wet.
I bet CA sees more leave with the LA fires. Seeing the home prices in some of the neighborhoods that were lost was wild. Assuming they were insured if they get half of their home’s value from the insurance companies they would be able to buy very nice houses in most other states.
Not to mention the folks that won’t/didn’t lose their home’s value not wanting to risk having their home lost if this happens again.
Funny how similar it is to the electoral map
The Carolina’s are booming, blimey.