Northeast and Midwest See Highest Level of Outbound Moves Says Moving Company
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While the West and Southeast saw the greatest proportion of inbound moves, according to United Van Lines 29th Annual survey of inbound and outbound moves.The moving company’s statistics tend to predict the governments statistics released later in the year to an amazing degree of accuracy.
Highest Outbound States
- North Dakota 67.8%
- Michigan 63.9%
- New Jersey 60.4%
- Indiana 59.9%
- New York 59.8%
- Illinois 58.4%
- Louisiana 57.9%
- Rhode Island 57.0%
- Pennsylvania 56.0%
- California 55.7%
Highest Inbound States
- Washington DC 61.4%
- North Carolina 61.3%
- South Carolina 59.0%
- Alabama 58.58.9%
- Tennesee 58.0%
- Kentucky 55.3%
- Georgia 55.2%
- Florida 54.2%
- Texas 53.9%
- Washington 53.4%
Source United Van Lines,
The Walk-Through saw these numbers and surmised “It seems those high house prices on the coasts are encouraging some people to pack up the moving van. Some economists say that’s when you should start to look for a correction.”.
My impression is that more than high housing costs are involved. This trend has been going on for a number of years, with relocation to the Southeast from the Midwest and Northeast. Other significant factors that contribute to these statistics are weather related, transfering from high taxation to low taxation states, and political (huge movements from Blue to Red States.)
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