US States With the Lowest Net Domestic Migration Rates

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

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