US States With the Highest Net Domestic Migration

51 US states ranked by net domestic migration, from highest to lowest. First are South Carolina (15.36), Delaware (9.87) and North Carolina (9.35). The middle one of the 51 has 0.47.

What this measures

People moving in from other states minus people moving out to them, from 1 July to 1 July, from the Census population estimates. Source: Census population estimates.

This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest states.

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	15.36
2	Delaware	9.87
3	North Carolina	9.35
4	Tennessee	8.63
5	Florida	8.44
6	Montana	8.24
7	Idaho	7.78
8	Maine	6.97
9	Texas	6.44
10	Alabama	5.92
11	Arkansas	5.88
12	Oklahoma	5.67
13	South Dakota	5.04
14	Arizona	4.84
15	Georgia	4.83
16	New Hampshire	3.22
17	Wyoming	3.00
18	Nevada	2.60
19	West Virginia	1.85
20	Kentucky	1.62
21	Missouri	1.56
22	Wisconsin	1.30
23	Vermont	1.20
24	North Dakota	1.17
25	Colorado	1.09
26	Indiana	0.47
27	Utah	0.15
28	Ohio	-0.08
29	Nebraska	-0.55
30	New Mexico	-0.70
31	Minnesota	-0.93
32	Virginia	-1.11
33	Iowa	-1.15
34	Mississippi	-1.18
35	Pennsylvania	-1.67
36	Michigan	-1.74
37	Connecticut	-1.80
38	Kansas	-1.82
39	Oregon	-1.89
40	Washington	-2.23
41	Rhode Island	-3.00
42	District of Columbia	-3.84
43	New Jersey	-5.20
44	Massachusetts	-5.23
45	Maryland	-5.31
46	Illinois	-6.45
47	Alaska	-6.66
48	Louisiana	-6.76
49	Hawaii	-7.63
50	California	-8.77
51	New York	-8.90

More on net domestic migration

A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.