{"id":2182,"date":"2022-03-21T11:39:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T11:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/united-van-lines-45th-annual-national-movers-study-reveals-the-top-states-people-moved-to-and-from-2021\/"},"modified":"2022-03-21T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T11:39:59","slug":"united-van-lines-45th-annual-national-movers-study-reveals-the-top-states-people-moved-to-and-from-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/united-van-lines-45th-annual-national-movers-study-reveals-the-top-states-people-moved-to-and-from-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"United Van Lines 45th Annual National Movers Study Reveals The Top States People Moved To and From – 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The annual study, which tracks the company\u2019s exclusive data for customers\u2019 state-to-state migration patterns, determined\u00a0Vermont\u00a0<\/strong>as the state with the highest percentage of inbound migration (74%) with United Van Lines. Topping the list of outbound locations was\u00a0New Jersey\u00a0<\/strong>(71%), which has held the spot for the past four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving In<\/strong>
The top inbound states of 2021 were:

1. Vermont
2. South Dakota
3. South Carolina
4. West Virginia
5. Florida
6. Alabama
7. Tennessee
8. Oregon
9. Idaho
10. Rhode Island<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Of the top ten inbound states, six \u2014 Vermont, South Dakota, West Virginia, Alabama, Oregon and Idaho \u2014 are among the 20 least densely populated states in America, with less than 100 people per square mile. And, Tennessee and South Carolina are among the top 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving Out<\/strong>
The top outbound states for 2021 were:

1. New Jersey
2. Illinois
3. New York
4. Connecticut
5. California
6. Michigan
7. Massachusetts
8. Louisiana
9. Ohio
10. Nebraska<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Dakota\u00a0<\/strong>(69%),\u00a0South Carolina\u00a0<\/strong>(63%),\u00a0West Virginia\u00a0<\/strong>(63%) and\u00a0Florida\u00a0<\/strong>(62%) were also revealed as the top inbound states for 2021. Meanwhile, states like\u00a0Illinois\u00a0<\/strong>(67%),\u00a0New York\u00a0<\/strong>(63%),\u00a0Connecticut\u00a0<\/strong>(60%) and\u00a0California\u00a0<\/strong>(59%), which have regularly appeared on the top outbound list in recent years, again ranked among states with the largest exoduses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the state-by-state data, each year United Van Lines also conducts an accompanying survey to examine the motivations and influences for Americans\u2019 interstate moves. This year\u2019s survey results indicated 31.8% of Americans who moved did so in order to be closer to family \u2013 a new trend coming out of the pandemic as priorities and lifestyle choices shift. Additionally, 32.5% of Americans moved for a new job or job transfer, a significant decrease from 2015, when more than 60% of Americans cited a job or transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s more, amid the pandemic, many Gen Xers are retiring (often at a younger age than past generations), joining the Baby Boomer generation. While many are retiring to states like Florida, United Van Lines\u2019 data reveals they\u2019re not necessarily heading to heavily populated cities like Orlando and Miami \u2014 they\u2019re venturing to less dense places like Punta Gorda (81% inbound), Sarasota (79% inbound) and Fort Myers-Cape Coral (77% inbound). Similarly, in Oregon, cities including Medford-Ashland (83%) and Eugene-Springfield (79%) saw high inbound migration in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The annual study, which tracks the company\u2019s exclusive data for customers\u2019 state-to-state migration patterns, determined\u00a0Vermont\u00a0as the state with the highest percentage of inbound migration (74%) with United Van Lines. Topping the list of outbound locations was\u00a0New Jersey\u00a0(71%), which has held the spot for the past four years. Moving InThe top inbound states of 2021 were: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_metasync_otto_title":"","_metasync_otto_description":"","_metasync_otto_keywords":"","_metasync_otto_og_title":"","_metasync_otto_og_description":"","_metasync_otto_twitter_title":"","_metasync_otto_twitter_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_aioseo_title":"","_aioseo_description":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[366,367,368],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-moving-2021","tag-moving-data","tag-state-data"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/UVL_Movers_Study.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}