Florida saw more migration than any state in the country - Report (unemployment, buyers)
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Florida continued to draw residents from other states last year.
The Sunshine State saw the largest migration of U.S. citizens coming from other states in 2019, with an estimated 601,611 people migrating to it last year, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. That is the most among any state. Other top states include Texas with 559,661; California with 480,204; North Carolina with 315,215 and Georgia with 284,541.
The new influx of residents brings Florida’s total population to 21,269,409. The new resident number provided by the U.S. Census Bureau has a margin error +/- of 24,764.
Florida has fallen from the top of states with higher NET MIGRATION given there are people moving out as well due to zero COVID restrictions, skyrocketing unemployment and little job opportunity in places like Orlando especially which is near full-crisis mode with around 20% unemployment and Disney ready to lay off another 32K in the first half of 2021.
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The links above (including from Forbes and National Association of Realtors) from recent weeks/past few months—not 2 years ago— plus below are fake reporting??
Florida has fallen from the top of states with higher NET MIGRATION given there are people moving out as well due to zero COVID restrictions, skyrocketing unemployment and little job opportunity in places like Orlando especially which is near full-crisis mode with around 20% unemployment and Disney ready to lay off another 32K in the first half of 2021.
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Florida has fallen from the top of states with higher NET MIGRATION given there are people moving out as well due to zero COVID restrictions, skyrocketing unemployment and little job opportunity in places like Orlando especially which is near full-crisis mode with around 20% unemployment and Disney ready to lay off another 32K in the first half of 2021.
There's simply no credible evidence whatsoever that people are fleeing Florida due to FEWER covid restrictions. None. The opposite has actually been true. Northeastern states with the strongest restrictions to covid (a virus with a 99.96% recovery rate, mind you) are fleeing to states that aren't in such a panic. They're losing their shirts living in those areas. Not saying there shouldn't be precautions, especially those at risk. But the emotional flailing about is causing people to ignore facts and science that was enacted in past pandemics (2009/1969), including herd immunity (which no one dares talk about). Florida has opened the state and has done very well overall. Continually opening and closing economies and communities and living in steril bubbles only will prolong covid indefinitely due to herd immunity not being allowed to happen. These are simply unarguable scientific facts. The CDC has had to recalculate their data 3 times over massive misinformation and elementary miscalculations in their data. So to say that people are fleeing Florida due to having "zero" restrictions over a virus that has such an astronomically high recovery rate is almost laughable. Not trying to be patronizing, but making the "cure" (ie hand-over-fist restrictions) worse than the virus itself is throwing the baby out with the bathwater X10.
If the OP's numbers are from 2019, that would be pre-COVID.
That said, Florida (outside of Miami) definitely still has the advantage post-COVID between no income taxes, great weather *AND* low property taxes for people who are retiring or can WFH permanently.
Florida continued to draw residents from other states last year.
The Sunshine State saw the largest migration of U.S. citizens coming from other states in 2019, with an estimated 601,611 people migrating to it last year, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. That is the most among any state. Other top states include Texas with 559,661; California with 480,204; North Carolina with 315,215 and Georgia with 284,541.
The new influx of residents brings Florida’s total population to 21,269,409. The new resident number provided by the U.S. Census Bureau has a margin error +/- of 24,764.
These numbers are pointless since they don't take into account out-migration.
Here are the top gainers in terms of raw numbers from 2018-2019:
Texas 367,215
Florida 233,420
Arizona 120,693
North Carolina 106,469
Georgia 106,292
Washington 91,024
Colorado 67,449
South Carolina 64,558
Tennessee 57,543
Nevada 52,815
And as a percentage:
Idaho 2.1%
Nevada 1.7%
Arizona 1.7%
Utah 1.7%
Texas 1.3%
South Carolina 1.3%
Washington 1.2%
Colorado 1.2%
Florida 1.1%
North Carolina 1.0%
Those numbers are also pointless if you're trying to analyze migration, since they include natural births.
No unnatural births?
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