People Still Moving to Idaho According to United Van Lines Study
(Boise, ID) United Van Lines has tracked household migration patterns since 1977, based on where the company is hired to pick up households and deliver them. The company’s data offers a snapshot of where Americans are moving.
The District of Columbia showed the highest percent of in-bound traffic (64.3 percent) in 2010, according to a press release Monday. It was the third year in a row that the nation’s capital topped the list.
In the West, Idaho was one of only two states that captured high-inbound rankings. Idaho’s in-bound migration was 57.6 percent. It was the second consecutive year the state appeared on the list.
Oregon made its 23rd appearance on the high-inbound rankings. The state was second-highest in the country, with 59.5 percent in-bound migration.
Nevada, which was part of the high-inbound traffic for 24 consecutive years, is now considered a “balanced” state. Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico are other Western states that went from high-inbound traffic in 2009 to a balanced status in 2010, according to United Van Lines.
At 62.5 percent, New Jersey was the state with the single highest out-bound traffic.
The Great Lake region continued to have the highest out-bound traffic levels in the nation, with four of the region’s states experiencing high outbound traffic.
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