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Old 02-25-2014, 01:42 PM
 
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United States

184,556,088 Americans were born in the state of residence
84,147,291 Americans born in other states
40,824,658 Foreign Born

The focus will be on the second category, Americans born in other states.

By state:

Alabama: 1,253,686
Alaska: 367,622
Arizona: 3,081,201
Arkansas: 987,189
California: 6,592,525
Colorado: 2,419,554
Connecticut: 983,786
Delaware: 412,709
DC: 297,298
Florida: 8,052,406
Georgia: 3,357,206
Hawaii: 342,239
Idaho: 730,830
Illinois: 2,325,553
Indiana: 1,725,464
Iowa: 717,964
Kansas: 961,689
Kentucky: 1,156,270
Louisiana: 787,568
Maine: 402,899
Maryland: 2,185,615
Massachusetts: 1,290,017
Michigan: 1,633,567
Minnesota: 1,252,791
Mississippi: 759,712
Missouri: 1,742,258
Montana: 443,877
Nebraska: 514,626
Nevada: 1,489,818
New Hampshire: 681,045
New Jersey: 2,113,321
New Mexico: 755,145
New York: 2,248,358
North Carolina: 3,250,073
North Dakota: 206,073
Ohio: 2,345,984
Oklahoma: 1,247,329
Oregon: 1,697,149
Pennsylvania: 2,373,931
Rhode Island: 280,758
South Carolina: 1,702,830
South Dakota: 268,699
Tennessee: 2,147,359
Texas: 5,671,916
Utah: 823,120
Vermont: 271,880
Virginia: 3,059,703
Washington: 2,587,596
West Virginia: 530,022
Wisconsin: 1,317,694
Wymoing: 317,367

As for transplant origin

The census only gives data in terms of the 4 big regions (Northeast, Midwest, South, West), but here's some data for at least the top 5 states by US population (CA, TX, FL, NY, IL) to see where transplanted populations come from:

California: 6,592,525, of which

Northeast: 1,487,729
Midwest: 1,992,109
South: 1,769,797
West: 1,342,890

Texas: 5,671,916 of which

Northeast: 712,175
Midwest: 1,548,144
South: 2,062,255
West: 1,349,342

Florida: 8,052,406, of which

Northeast: 3,373,965
Midwest: 2,095,894
South: 2,067,672
West: 514,875

New York: 2,248,358 of which

Northeast: 897,197
Midwest: 371,277
South: 701,748
West: 278,136

Illinois: 2,325,553 of which

Northeast: 274,241
Midwest: 1,099,121
South: 685,909
West: 266,282

I'll do other states and organize the data better later. Just found it interesting and somewhat surprising.
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Old 02-25-2014, 04:16 PM
 
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Atlanta CSA

Total: 2,150,353 born in another state
Norheast: 488,200
Midwest: 470,299
South: 996,459
West: 195,395

Chicago CSA

Total: 1,772,564 born in another state

Northeast: 234,864
Midwest: 829,788
South: 522,644
West: 185,268

Dallas-Fort Worth CSA

Total: 1,812,483 born in another state

Northeast: 232,452
Midwest: 531,597
South: 650,726
West: 397,708

Houston CSA

Total: 1,332,151 born in another state

Northeast: 195,057
Midwest: 328,851
South: 554,169
West" 254,074

Los Angeles CSA

Total: 2,816,721 born in another state

Northeast: 671,982
Midwest: 884,742
South: 759,293
West: 500,704

New York CSA

Total: 3,417,344 born in another state

Northeast: 1,990,245
Midwest: 376,501
South: 767,740
West: 282,858

San Francisco CSA

Total: 1,432,952 born in another state

Northeast: 384,940
Midwest: 407,520
South: 356,252
West: 284,240

Washington DC CSA

Total: 3,542,688 born in another state

Northeast: 1,043,319
Midwest: 478,958
South: 1,677,357
West: 343,054

Miami MSA

Total: 1,538,231 born in another state

Northeast: 903,215
Midwest: 270,222
South: 281,373
West: 83,271

Phoenix MSA

Total: 2,066,290

Northeast: 329,940
Midwest: 758,085
South: 306,913
West: 671,352

San Diego MSA

Total: 858,053

Northeast: 200,291
Midwest: 282,296
South: 219,048
West: 155,818

Tampa Bay MSA

Total: 1,386,810

Northeast: 594,694
Midwest: 400,848
South: 304,460
West: 86,848

Boston CSA

Total: 1,862,982

Northeast: 1,245,175
Midwest: 204,326
South: 266,313
West: 144,938

Denver CSA

Total: 1,386,050

Northeast: 195,405
Midwest: 530,130
South: 297,655
West: 362,830

Detroit CSA

Total: 878,299

Northeast: 144,250
Midwest: 288,851
South: 363,620
West: 81,758

Minneapolis-St Paul CSA

Total: 891,496

Northeast: 75,516
Midwest: 572,993
South: 111,566
West: 131,411

Orlando CSA

Total: 1,307,418

Northeast: 561,216
Midwest: 345,986
South: 321,316
West: 78,820

Philadelphia CSA

Total: 1,586,562

Northeast: 917,391
Midwest: 148,786
South: 420,829
West: 99,556

Seattle CSA

Total: 1,583,956

Northeast: 188,645
Midwest: 405,246
South: 278,133
West: 711,732

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Old 02-25-2014, 04:56 PM
 
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Atlanta CSA
Interesting numbers for all of the CSAs. My take is that Los Angeles and San Francisco both have a pretty balanced draw from all across the country in terms of domestic transplants (in fact, the "West" is the lowest transplant region for both areas, but obviously that has much more to do with Californians being omitted from the numbers).

The rest of the CSAs are fairly lopsided toward transplants from the region in which it resides.
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How do you count transplants from another state in say, the New York CSA which spans several states? Lots of New Jerseyans born in NYC would be counted as transplants within the same CSA and so would any New Yorkers who formerly lived in Jersey.

The southern transplants for the northern cities might be older black residents. Might be interesting to compare which states have more foreign born vs born in another state.
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Old 02-25-2014, 06:30 PM
 
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Interesting numbers for all of the CSAs. My take is that Los Angeles and San Francisco both have a pretty balanced draw from all across the country in terms of domestic transplants (in fact, the "West" is the lowest transplant region for both areas, but obviously that has much more to do with Californians being omitted from the numbers).

The rest of the CSAs are fairly lopsided toward transplants from the region in which it resides.
Yeah so far I have noticed that only in PHX, DEN, and the FL metros where the biggest contributor of transplants are places outside of it's region. I think the CA metros (including Sacramento) are balanced for te reason you point out: most of the Western born are most likely in California. Other Western states are either transplant and foreign born dominated (NV, AZ, and WA) for now or they are states that generally have a lot of people.

I'm surprised that FL is by far the most transplant dominated state in raw numbers and close to by percentage (NV beats it out), and that TX doesn't have more transplants than it does given how many people are moving to Texas nowadays. I was half expecting the largest region represented to be the West based on how many Californians are moving to TX (or at least where most f the attention goes).

Surprising statistic of the day: FL has the same population today as California did in 1970. Florida has less people born in state today (only 35.4% was born in FL) than CA did in 1970 at the same population (43.2% of CA in 1970 was born in state)

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How do you count transplants from another state in say, the New York CSA which spans several states? Lots of New Jerseyans born in NYC would be counted as transplants within the same CSA and so would any New Yorkers who formerly lived in Jersey.
You count them the same I guess. The census questionnaire literally asks "What state were you born in?" and compares that to their state of residence. It could be a move from NY-CA or NY-NJ, it doesn't matter. They're both counted as the same. They're only technically transplants, but transplants all the same. That's why I posted up the regional numbers so a better idea is given.

Likewise for transplants from DFW-HOU or LA-SF, they aren't counted as "born in another state" even though they definitely are transplants to a new area.

It's imperfect but it gives a good idea. Better than sifting through a huge deluge of county data.

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The southern transplants for the northern cities might be older black residents
Probably. The ACS gives temporal data as well, so I can go sift through it more when I have a bit more time.

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Might be interesting to compare which states have more foreign born vs born in another state.
States with more foreign born than those born in another state

California: 10,300,382 vs 6,592,525
New York: 4,424,370 vs 2,248,358

Those are the only two states, though there are four others where the foreign born nearly matches the the "born in another state crowd"

Hawaii: 251,866 vs 342,239
Illinois: 1,791,330 vs. 2,325,553
Massachusetts: 995,692 vs. 1,290,017
New Jersey: 1,883,299 vs. 2,113,321

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Old 02-25-2014, 07:41 PM
 
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Two "wows"

1) didn't realize that Midwesterners liked CA so much.

2) found it kind of shocking how SO MANY of Boston's transplants are from other northern states. I just don't know what to make of that....
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Old 02-25-2014, 08:16 PM
 
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On another note, the DC-Baltimore CSA has the most domestic transplants of any area -- even the NYC CSA, which is more than twice as large. This doesn't seem completely shocking though, since sometimes it seems like natives are a novelty around here.
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You count them the same I guess. The census questionnaire literally asks "What state were you born in?" and compares that to their state of residence. It could be a move from NY-CA or NY-NJ, it doesn't matter. They're both counted as the same. They're only technically transplants, but transplants all the same. That's why I posted up the regional numbers so a better idea is given.

Likewise for transplants from DFW-HOU or LA-SF, they aren't counted as "born in another state" even though they definitely are transplants to a new area.

It's imperfect but it gives a good idea. Better than sifting through a huge deluge of county data.
Makes sense. Interesting stuff, even if imperfect. Thanks for sharing the info.

Probably. The ACS gives temporal data as well, so I can go sift through it more when I have a bit more time.


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States with more foreign born than those born in another state

California: 10,300,382 vs 6,592,525
New York: 4,424,370 vs 2,248,358

Those are the only two states, though there are four others where the foreign born nearly matches the the "born in another state crowd"
I'm surprised only two states had more foreign born than domestic transplants. I'm guess my perception of the norm is skewed from living / spending time in downstate NY.
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colorado has more transplants than NY state! Despite having almost 1/4 of the population. How/why does West Virginia have so many transplants?
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Old 02-25-2014, 10:52 PM
 
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Two "wows"

1) didn't realize that Midwesterners liked CA so much.
I didn't realize that so many Southerners moved to California. That was sort of a shocker to me. California seems to have the most balance of transplants by region, though I think Colorado comes close.

Texas has a good balance as well, but Northeastern people don't move there as much. Florida barely attracts people from out West.

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2) found it kind of shocking how SO MANY of Boston's transplants are from other northern states. I just don't know what to make of that....
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.
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