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So I was just looking at some migration stats from the U.S. Census Bureau. It says the biggest metro areas of NYC, LA, CHI are all losing domestic migration population.
Take a look at the 10 biggest CSA's.
Population
1. New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA 23,484,225
2. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA 18,351,929
3. Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI CSA 9,912,730
4. Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA CSA 9,443,180
5. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA 8,469,854
6. Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA 8,041,303
7. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA 7,206,144
8. Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA 7,146,706
9. Houston-The Woodlands, TX CSA 6,508,323
10. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie, FL CSA 6,447,610
Net Domestic Migration 2010-2013
1. New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA -406,367
2. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA -123,944
3. Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI CSA -178,617
4. Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA CSA 47,712
5. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA 31,668
6. Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA -27,607
7. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA 135,027
8. Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA -64,696
9. Houston-The Woodlands, TX CSA 123,672
10. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie, FL CSA 47,370
Net Domestic Migration Rate 2010-2013
1. New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA -1.76%
2. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA -0.69%
3. Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI CSA -1.82%
4. Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA CSA 0.53%
5. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA 0.39%
6. Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA -0.35%
7. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA 1.98%
8. Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA -0.92%
9. Houston-The Woodlands, TX CSA 2.02%
10. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie, FL CSA 0.77%
As you could see New York and Chicago are losing domestic population from it's central city, suburbs, and commuter counties at a real fast pace. Los Angeles isn't as bad. While people are headed to those big sunbelt cities.
Every metro area loses population, but they're replenished by more people. In LA and NYC metro areas cases, their gains come through massive flows of international migrants. For decades now. During that period, NYC's CSA gained about 500,000 international migrants and LA's gained over 200,000. The same tale as London (neg. net 575,400) and Paris (-420,000) and every other mega international city. They've been entry points for immigrants and many of them leave and disperse throughout the country to find low cost of living, jobs etc. But once they're in those cities and leave, they're counted as domestic migrants.
San Francisco is like that as well, but something happened in early 2010-2012 to change that, briefly. In 2013 it went back into the negatives. San Jose's MSA never changed its decades long negative domestic growth.
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Nonetheless, these slow growth places are the richest and most desirable parts of the country and have nothing to worry about. The typical American migrant is lower to middle class and don't move to big expensive cities, generally. The only bad one is Chicago because they don't get large flows of international people to grow.
LA and NYC metro areas gain massive population through international immigration. For decades now. They've been entry points for immigrants and many of them leave disperse throughout the country. Once they're in those cities and leave, they're counted as domestic migrants. You didn't know that?
I wasn't talking about foreign migration. Just domestic.
So I was just looking at some migration stats from the U.S. Census Bureau. It says the biggest metro areas of NYC, LA, CHI are all losing domestic migration population.
Take a look at the 10 biggest CSA's.
Population
1. New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA 23,484,225
2. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA 18,351,929
3. Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI CSA 9,912,730
4. Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA CSA 9,443,180
5. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA 8,469,854
6. Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA 8,041,303
7. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA 7,206,144
8. Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA 7,146,706
9. Houston-The Woodlands, TX CSA 6,508,323
10. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie, FL CSA 6,447,610
Net Domestic Migration 2010-2013
1. New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA -406,367
2. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA -123,944
3. Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI CSA -178,617
4. Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA CSA 47,712
5. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA 31,668
6. Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA -27,607
7. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA 135,027
8. Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA -64,696
9. Houston-The Woodlands, TX CSA 123,672
10. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie, FL CSA 47,370
Net Domestic Migration Rate 2010-2013
1. New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA -1.76%
2. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA -0.69%
3. Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI CSA -1.82%
4. Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA CSA 0.53%
5. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA 0.39%
6. Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA -0.35%
7. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA 1.98%
8. Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA -0.92%
9. Houston-The Woodlands, TX CSA 2.02%
10. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie, FL CSA 0.77%
As you could see New York and Chicago are losing domestic population from it's central city, suburbs, and commuter counties at a real fast pace. Los Angeles isn't as bad. While people are headed to those big sunbelt cities.
Miami is kind of ridiculous, it might as well go all the way to Jacksonville.
Florida is the largest revolving door in the U.S., though. Florida actually has the highest rate of people who leave the state, and almost the numerical highest -- it's right behind the much larger California. But FL's loss offset by tons of people (retirees -- median age of one who moves to FL is much higher than average) and immigrants who move in the state.
# of taxpayers who left each state from 2005-2010 (from IRS)
California 1.9 million
Florida 1.8 million
Texas 1.4 million
New York : 1.3 million (850k if you exclude NJ and CT)
Hundreds of thousand of people actually leave Houston and Dallas every year, but we're offset by lots of Americans moving in. According to the IRS, median wage of all U.S. migrants is barely 40k, so it's no wonder places like NYC and CA aren't really that attractive to the average American migrant. Too expensive. People from abroad don't seem to have a problem with decreasing their living space, disposable $ etc. and continue to move to NYC and CA in huge numbers.
I wasn't talking about foreign migration. Just domestic.
All older metro areas have negative net domestic migration. This has always been the case.
How could a city be huge, pricey and a big immigration center without making room for newcomers? That doesn't even make sense.
And your commentary is all wrong too. The data is for MSAs, yet you claim that the data is for center cities. Not true.
And the other big factor is who moves in. Cheap Sunbelt metros attract young families, so you will get larger domestic migration numbers. Expensive metros attract singles and empty nesters, so you will get smaller family sizes. It makes no sense for Bill and Jane MidAmerica to move to San Francisco or Boston or Long Island, but it does make sense for a young single, or a wealthy retired couple, etc.
Los Angeles: -153,000
Orange: 7,000
Riverside: 42,000
San Bernardino: -15,000
Ventura: -6,000
But that makes perfect sense. Obviously immigrants, empty nesters and the wealthy go to LA County. Obviously young families looking for an affordable housing move further out. It would be very weird if LA had net domestic migration similar to that of, say, Ventura County.
So I was just looking at some migration stats from the U.S. Census Bureau. It says the biggest metro areas of NYC, LA, CHI are all losing domestic migration population.
Take a look at the 10 biggest CSA's.
Population
1. New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA 23,484,225
2. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA 18,351,929
3. Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI CSA 9,912,730
4. Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA CSA 9,443,180
5. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA 8,469,854
6. Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA 8,041,303
7. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA 7,206,144
8. Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA 7,146,706
9. Houston-The Woodlands, TX CSA 6,508,323
10. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie, FL CSA 6,447,610
Net Domestic Migration 2010-2013
1. New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA -406,367
2. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA -123,944
3. Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI CSA -178,617
4. Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA CSA 47,712
5. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA 31,668
6. Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA -27,607
7. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA 135,027
8. Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA -64,696
9. Houston-The Woodlands, TX CSA 123,672
10. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie, FL CSA 47,370
Net Domestic Migration Rate 2010-2013
1. New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA -1.76%
2. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA -0.69%
3. Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI CSA -1.82%
4. Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA CSA 0.53%
5. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA 0.39%
6. Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA -0.35%
7. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA 1.98%
8. Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA -0.92%
9. Houston-The Woodlands, TX CSA 2.02%
10. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie, FL CSA 0.77%
As you could see New York and Chicago are losing domestic population from it's central city, suburbs, and commuter counties at a real fast pace. Los Angeles isn't as bad. While people are headed to those big sunbelt cities.
Good stats, OP. Do you blame people from leaving these old, heavily taxed, grimey cities?
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