Where transplants to Denver are originally from (Boulder, Highlands Ranch: home, schools)

[Indigo Cardinal]

Interesting!

This may stun you, but most Denver transplants are not from out-of-state | 9news.com

[illinoisphotographer]

I'm sorry, but this is just an absolute crap article.

Nobody refers to people moving from another city in the same state as a transplant. I mean Boulder is practically a suburb of Denver. If anything, this article should be titled, "Colorado College graduates move to Denver" as all 4 towns have major state schools.... It's not a shocker that when those students graduate they move to find work in Denver....

[TCHP]

...and most new residents to the western slope came from the Front Range.

CO has been growing 15-30% a decade over the last generation. If the natural birth rate is only 3-4%, then all those extra people had to come from somewhere.

Even with their data, the delta between inner state movement and in state migration is only 5%. Since most data like this has a 2-5% margin of error, it could still very close statistically.

Of course, using their list, I am not wholly surprised at all by the breakout of all the locations from #5 to 10, but am a bit surprised Florida didn't make this cut off.

[N610DL]

I'm surprised Los Angeles is so high (me being one of them.) I feel like I may only know 1-2 other people who moved here from L.A. and know a LOT more people from TX and NJ who relocated here.

If you take Colorado cities out it goes:

Los Angeles: 3,922 (2.7% of transplants)
Chicago: 3,544 (2.5% of transplants)
Dallas: 3,021 (2.1% of transplants)
Washington D.C.: 3,004 (2.09% of transplants)
Phoenix: 2,519 (1.75% of transplants)
New York City/Newark, NJ: 2,436 (1.7% of transplants)

I'm still skeptical - I can't see L.A. being #1.

[TCHP]

California, maybe. LA, I'm not so sure. I do know several people from LA, but I know more from CA, and even more from TX (not exclusively Dallas). Of course, they could be using the LA MSA figures and they also chose a very narrow segment of year too.

[Left-handed]

During 2008-2010, there seemed to be an exodus from the Midwest and Rust Belt states. Mostly college grads trying to escape the stagnant economies of their home states. And everyone knows that Highlands Ranch is California's "safe zone", so obviously lots of California transplants here. Now I'm seeing a lot more people from Texas when I go out and about.

[N610DL]

Originally Posted by Left-handed

During 2008-2010, there seemed to be an exodus from the Midwest and Rust Belt states. Mostly college grads trying to escape the stagnant economies of their home states. And everyone knows that Highlands Ranch is California's "safe zone", so obviously lots of California transplants here. Now I'm seeing a lot more people from Texas when I go out and about.

I've totally heard that about the Mid/Late 2000s about Midwest / Rust Belt Transplants coming to CO. The 2011-2017 time frame I would agree lot's more NJ/TX/AZ/NY/CA coastal transplants.

[flamadiddle]

In-state people will follow the money!

[daprara]

30% growth over 10 years is not a lot actually as 10 years is a long time.
especially since most are from Colorado in the first place


if 2.77% people came from LA over the course of 10 years. we are talking a thousand per year. the number too small to count.

[tanbark813]

Originally Posted by Left-handed

And everyone knows that Highlands Ranch is California's "safe zone"

Why is that? Just curious as a person who moved from CA to HR a few months ago.