US States With the Highest Net Domestic Migration Rates

51 US states ranked by net domestic migration rate, from highest to lowest. First are South Carolina (15.1), Delaware (9.73) and North Carolina (9.24). The middle one of the 51 has 0.464.

What this measures

Net moves from other states per 1,000 residents, every year from 2001. July 2009 to July 2010 is missing, since it falls between two editions of the estimates. It is an estimate built mostly from addresses on tax returns, so it is a longer, smoother relative of the IRS moving data, not a separate count. Source: Census population estimates.

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

Every state

Rank	State	per 1,000 residents
1	South Carolina	15.1
2	Delaware	9.73
3	North Carolina	9.24
4	Tennessee	8.54
5	Florida	8.27
6	Montana	8.12
7	Idaho	7.58
8	Maine	6.9
9	Texas	6.34
10	Alabama	5.9
11	Arkansas	5.85
12	Oklahoma	5.63
13	South Dakota	4.99
14	Georgia	4.78
15	Arizona	4.77
16	New Hampshire	3.2
17	Wyoming	2.99
18	Nevada	2.57
19	West Virginia	1.86
20	Kentucky	1.61
21	Missouri	1.56
22	Wisconsin	1.3
23	Vermont	1.19
24	North Dakota	1.17
25	Colorado	1.08
26	Indiana	0.464
27	Utah	0.145
28	Ohio	-0.0821
29	Nebraska	-0.546
30	New Mexico	-0.703
31	Minnesota	-0.932
32	Virginia	-1.11
33	Iowa	-1.15
34	Mississippi	-1.18
35	Pennsylvania	-1.67
36	Michigan	-1.74
37	Connecticut	-1.79
38	Kansas	-1.82
39	Oregon	-1.89
40	Washington	-2.22
41	Rhode Island	-2.98
42	District of Columbia	-3.81
43	New Jersey	-5.18
44	Massachusetts	-5.21
45	Maryland	-5.29
46	Illinois	-6.49
47	Alaska	-6.65
48	Louisiana	-6.8
49	Hawaii	-7.66
50	California	-8.79
51	New York	-8.98

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