Posted on 01/08/2007 9:40:00 AM PST by Ellesu
United Van Lines Releases 2006 Migration Study:
A strong mobility pattern continued in 2006 as many Americans packed up their belongings and headed to the West and Southeast parts of the country, while the Central Northeast region of the country experienced an increase in residents departing. The statistics are among the findings of United Van Lines 30th annual migration study that tracks where its customers, over the last 12 months, moved from and the most popular destinations. The findings were announced by Carl Walter, vice president of United Van Lines, the nations largest household goods mover.
United has tracked shipment patterns annually on a state-by-state basis since 1977. For 2006, the accounting is based on the 227,254 interstate household moves handled by United among the 48 contiguous states, as well as Washington, D.C. In its study, United classifies each state in one of three categories -- high inbound (55% or more of moves going into a state); high outbound (55% or more of moves coming out of a state); or balanced. Although the majority of states were in the balanced category last year, several showed more substantial population shifts.
MOVING IN Known for hospitality and gracious style, the Southeast states welcomed many new residents in 2006, with North Carolina coming in as the top destination (64.0% inbound). South Carolina (60.6%) continued its 13-year inbound tradition, while Alabama (57.5%) experienced its fourth year as a high-inbound location. Although Tennessee saw less people move in this year (55.8% in 2006; 58.0% in 2005), it still captured a spot on the high-inbound list.
Although not considered high inbound, other southeastern states also greeted new residents. Kentucky (52.9%) continued its five-year inbound trend; Georgia (53.9%) continued its 25-year trend as an inbound state; and Mississippi (50.1%) boasted a 3.2% increase in moves to its state as compared to 2005.
Supporting the idea that Americans still believe there is fortune to be found in the West, the Western portion of the country emerged as a top migration spot. Capturing the No. 2-inbound ranking, Oregon (62.5%) sustained its 19-year, high-inbound trend. While still a high-inbound state, Arizona (55.4%) saw roughly 5% less people move in than last year; however, Nevada (59.9%) continued its lucky streak of being high inbound since 1986.
Both New Mexico (57.9% inbound; a 3.7% increase) and Utah (56.0% inbound; nearly 6% increase) saw a rise of incoming residents as compared to last years data. Idahos (59.3% inbound) high-inbound ranking has held steady for the past 19 years; and Montana (55.0% inbound) retained its five-year inbound status.
Although not considered high inbound, other Western states witnessed increases of incoming moves as compared to last year: Colorado (54.7% inbound) continued its four-year inbound trend and had 1.2% increase, and Wyoming (54.4% inbound) boasted a 4.3% increase.
Rounding out the of high-inbound list are Washington, D.C. (57.9%), which has remained inbound since the first year of the study, and South Dakota (55.9%), which enjoyed its first high-inbound year since 1994.
Some other noteworthy inbound-migration states in 2006:
Texas (54.6%) continued inbound movement since 1989 and saw slightly (0.7%) more people move in as compared to last year.
After being outbound last year, Nebraska (52.5% inbound) turned a new leaf and has 3.2% more moves in as compared to 2005.
Although it is considered a balanced state, Oklahoma (50.0%) saw a 3% increase over last years numbers.
This year marked the first time in 25 years that Minnesota (51.3%) saw more people entering than leaving. MOVING OUT States in the Central Northeast generally showed an outbound trend, according to Uniteds records. Ranked No. 2 on the high-outbound list last year, Michigan (66.0%) moved up a spot to tie for the top outbound state on this years list. Michigan saw a 2.1% increase over its 2005 numbers.
Other Central Northeast states that made the high-outbound list were: New York (59.5%), which has been an outbound state since the survey was established; Indiana (58.2%), which has been high outbound since 1993; and Illinois (55.7%), which has been high outbound since the surveys inception. Also continuing outbound traditions, New Jersey (60.9%, outbound since 1997), Pennsylvania (57.0%, high outbound for the past three years), and Ohio (55.8%, outbound since 1992) saw residents depart.
Rounding out the high-outbound states, Louisiana (56.4%) continued its two-year, high-outbound trend, but did see 1.5% less people leave as compared to last years numbers. Continuing its reign as the top outbound state of 2005, North Dakota (66.0%) tied this year with Michigan for the state that lost the most residents. The year of 2006 marked the eleventh consecutive year that North Dakota has been classified as high outbound.
Not identified as high outbound, but following the outbound trend in the Central Northeastern part of the country, Connecticut (52.4%) saw its fourth successive year of out-migration and Maryland (54.1%) continued its 15-year outbound tradition.
Some other noteworthy outbound states in this years study were:
California (52.4%) saw its lowest outbound percentage in four years. Missouri (51.8%) continued its 12-year outbound trend and had 1% more residents leave as compared to last year. Wisconsin (53.2%) witnessed its lowest outbound influx since 2000.
Walter said the United Van Lines study, through the years, has been shown to accurately reflect the general migration patterns in various regions of the country. He also noted that real estate firms, financial institutions, and other observers of relocation trends regularly use the United data in their business planning and analysis activities.
United Van Lines, with headquarters in suburban St. Louis, maintains a network of 1,000 affiliated agencies throughout the world. As the nations largest mover, United holds more than 30 percent of the market, which is nearly double the market share of the second largest carrier. More information about United and its services can be obtained through the companys Web site at www.unitedvanlines.com.
The second one stays.
I'm glad us "damnyankees" weren't so nasty to the hundreds of thousands of Southerners who streamed into Michigan from the 1920s to the 1950s to take jobs in the auto factories.
80% of the population of Detroit were either born in the South or their parents were.
Many of the "damnyankees" you complain about are just returning to their birthplaces.
The North welcomed the "damnrebels" with open arms and made them feel at home.
So much for "Southern hopsitality".
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With all due respect, we here in the Commonwealth prefer decorum, even amongst political enemies, so we don't tend to have very lively debates and loud polemics when we're up to an election. Of course, with the migration patterns that others have mentioned, this trend is slowly beginning to change, but for the mean time, we still tend to remain very civil in our discourse with each other.
It's only odd to an outsider that's accustomed to New York, California, and Washington D.C.'s way of doing things, I'd imagine.
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Sadly, the same cannot be said of the scallywag newspapers (i.e., the Pravda on the Potomac), which helped to turn this last election more than anyone.
yeah- it's a shame that all the old timers who made these towns/states so attractive in the first place are then run out of town by those hwo eartned their money the easy way and want to profit off what the real hard workers accomplished- a true shame- there are parts of Maine that used to have an excellent hometown quality to them but are now nothing more than cheesey tourist traps and full of activists and mother earth lovers/worshippers. We've long since left, and found a great little town in another state, but the pressure is on to change- Crimes is slowly creeping toward us, city folk are snapping up second and third homes here, and the whole atmosphere is slowly changing- and not for the better either.
Add Seattle to that list. The city core is now young family hating libs and homos/dykes. All the families have left the city for the rural areas.
Welcomed them by taxing the productive ones to pay for society's parasites, welcomed them by holding welfare outreach programs to increase the number of parasites on the government roles and welcomed them by denying them the fundamental right of effective self defense through "gun control" Welcomed them by burdening them with immense government costs so that the government and its friends could prosper at their expense - some welcome. Maybe that's why they're leaving - unfortunately most people don't leave their liberal attitudes behind when they move to the south and west.
If its tourist season, how come we can't shoot them?
That's immediately what I thought too: people who hire van lines are NOT a representative sample of people who move.
I've moved states 4 times in my adult life so far, all without a van line (now my NEXT move will be different, as I have 4 children now and lots more stuff!).
.....If younger people were leaving the Northeast to look for jobs .....
I think there are many older people moving to be near their kids who migrated earlier. I know several
Our taxes are lower than yours.
I hear what you're saying.
I was going off maps of where Virginia's legislators were 20 years ago.
They seemed to predominate in NoVa - with the exception of Arlington and Alexandria. They also had a presence in the Tidewater too.
However, in terms of ideology, there were a fair number of Southside Democrats who were just as conservative (if not more so) than some of the Republicans elected in NoVa.
He's probably union of some sort.
Massachusets is offering money (I forget if it's $500 or $1000) to active duty military, who claim it as their home of record, if they have deployed.
They have to apply for the money. I've warned several Airmen to READ THE FINE PRINT and research it online from impartial sources.
I do not see a tax happy state like Mass giving away money. Especially to military members.
Except for Blacksburg, all of SW Virginia that I know about is still conservative. The area would be a conservative stronghold except for a tendency for the state party to encourage candidates who think they can win by attacking their opponents as being "soft" on something, soft on taxes, soft on criminals, soft on abortion. The folks in my area want somebody with some character. Kaine and Webb came out looking like they had some character when their positions were portrayed in the campaign ads. To put it bluntly, the Republicans are chasing off their own natural voters.
Goerge Allen (whom I like) never stood up for his country, his president, his position on taxes or anything else. He made his ads without any effort to capitalize on his conservative political history. He came out looking like a coward and a bully and his voters didn't turn out.
Once conservative politicians begin to think that their states are "turning liberal" they tend to back away from the positions that brought them to prominence.
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