Transplants in the United States (from the Place of Birth and Nativity table on the American Community Survey)

[Bobilee]

Here's a map from Census Reporter on native born with the states. Use the bar with the little arrow and pick your category for different maps.

States in United States comparison - Table B05002 (ACS 2012 3-year) - Census Reporter

[Lets Eat Candy]

Originally Posted by Bobilee

Here's a map from Census Reporter on native born with the states. Use the bar with the little arrow and pick your category for different maps.

States in United States comparison - Table B05002 (ACS 2012 3-year) - Census Reporter

Damn, that could've saved me a whole lot of time. I used the 1 year estimates instead of the three year estimates though, hence some of the number discrepancy.

From the map, I notice that Westerners really don't migrate much out of the West. Wonder why that is.

[Chicago60614]

Originally Posted by Bobilee

Here's a map from Census Reporter on native born with the states. Use the bar with the little arrow and pick your category for different maps.

States in United States comparison - Table B05002 (ACS 2012 3-year) - Census Reporter

That map is pretty cool.

Northeasterners stay in the Northeast or FLorida as well as California.

Midwesterners move to California, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Arizona, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Colorado.

Southerners stay in the southern tier of states as well as the DC area, New York, California, Illinois and Ohio

Westerners stay out west.

[hobbesdj]

DC tier's large "Southern" population is going to be heavily slanted by the fact that MD and DE are in the Southern CSA.

I also noticed that most of New Hampshire is from out of state. Probably because Portsmouth and southern NH are so close to the Boston metro area.

[2e1m5a]

It looks like San Diego has the best balance of people from every region along with SF and LA.

Also interesting that the Philly CSA has more Western transplants than the Boston CSA.

[Lets Eat Candy]

In terms of % of the population born within the state, I noticed that no Western state has more than 55% of its population born in its state. Utah is the highest at 61.9%.

Conversely, the Midwestern state with the lowest "born in state' population is Kansas at 58.8%

Next to California, Colorado and Texas has the next best balance of transplants

California: 6,702,288, of which

1,496,860 Northeast (23.3)
2,050,352 Midwest (30.6)
1,802,832 South (26.9)
1,352,944 West (20.2)

Colorado: 2,352,735, of which

327,463 Northeast (13.9)
861,866 Midwest (36.6)
503,458 South (21.4)
659,928 West (28.0)

Texas: 5,553,655, of which

695,750 Northeast (12.5)
1,511,610 Midwest (27.2)
2,054,470 South (37.0)
1,292,355 West (23.2)

Wonder what explains why these three states?

[Chicago60614]

Originally Posted by hobbesdj

DC tier's large "Southern" population is going to be heavily slanted by the fact that MD and DE are in the Southern CSA.

I also noticed that most of New Hampshire is from out of state. Probably because Portsmouth and southern NH are so close to the Boston metro area.

Well I'm assuming the DC numbers don't include anything for Maryland or Virginia, or else that would severely skew the numbers.

[Boston Shudra]

Originally Posted by Lets Eat Candy

Most of the Northeast metro areas seem to have that same pattern: lots of people from other northeastern states, not so much from the rest of the country. If I had to take a guess, all 3 metro areas have lots of people from neighboring states who move within the metro but move between states, counting them as transplants.

Yes, but Philly and NYC had decent amounts of immigration from the South. In Boston's case, extremely few people moved there from other parts of the country whereas millions moved there from other northeastern states.


It looks like Boston has the most disproportionate data of the cities on this list.

[nei]

Originally Posted by iAMtheVVALRUS

Yes, but Philly and NYC had decent amounts of immigration from the South. In Boston's case, extremely few people moved there from other parts of the country whereas millions moved there from other northeastern states.

How recent is it? I suspect many if not most of those are older blacks that arrived in the Great Migration. The Boston CSA has a much lower black population in both absolute and % numbers, so that would explain the difference. If Boston migrants are mostly from other New England states, it show up as a having more transplants even if they are from really the same region (in contrast to San Francicso, where all of California count as non-transplants).