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I'd be curious to see what share of people in Montgomery and Prince George's counties can trace their ancestry back to DC within 3 generations. In a similar vein, I think lots of people in North Jersey/Westchester can trace their ancestry to NYC within 3 generations.
If you take someone who is 30 and look back three generations then you're talking about their great-grandparents. It's more likely that they (great-grandparents) were either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
PHX - 46% transplant 2.16m/4.7m
DEN - 45% transplant 1.25m/2.8m
DC - 44% transplant 2.67m/6.1m
PDX - 43% transplant 1.05m/2.45m
ATL - 37% transplant 2.16m/5.9m
SEA - 34% transplant 1.34m/3.9m
AUS - 30% transplant 600k/2m
IND - 28% transplant 500k/1.8m
MSP - 25% transplant 890k/3.6m
CHI - 18% transplant 1.68m/9.4m
A few thoughts...
Austin surprised me, I thought it would be up there with PDX and Denver.
Indianapolis was higher than I thought it would be.
Chicago was way lower than I expected. Granted, this does not count foreign-born, where Chicago would probably put up some totally respectable numbers.
I would have expected Chicago o be higher as well.I am surprised MSP is higher than it is
DC receives a higher share of southern transplants (as a fraction of its total domestic transplants) than even Charlotte. About 50% of DC's transplants are from the South; the share is substantially less in Charlotte.
DC receives a higher share of southern transplants (as a fraction of its total domestic transplants) than even Charlotte. About 50% of DC's transplants are from the South; the share is substantially less in Charlotte.
Charlotte's transplant profile is a bit more Northeast-heavy than Atlanta's.
+ Greater Atlanta MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 826,505
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 2,166,156
+ Greater Austin MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 319,830
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 600,292
+ Greater Boston MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 920,787
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 1,133,196
+ Greater Charlotte MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 257,769
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 1,011,589
+ Greater Chicago MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 1,720,001
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 1,689,616
+ Greater Cleveland MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 119,096
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 357,614
+ Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 1,381,148
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 1,926,178
+ Greater Denver MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 354,864
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 1,254,221
+ Greater Detroit MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 442,980
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 598,278
+ Greater Houston MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 1,629,242
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 1,420,204
+ Greater Los Angeles MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 4,443,985
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 1,842,580
+ Greater Miami/Fort Lauderdale MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 2,526,968
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 1,440,500
+ Greater Minneapolis/Saint Paul MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 396,211
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 890,443
+ Greater New York MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 5,928,468
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 2,813,861
+ Greater Orlando MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 468,826
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 912,068
+ Greater Philadelphia MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 676,304
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 1,504,177
+ Greater Phoenix MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 673,330
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 2,161,541
+ Greater Portland MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 306,137
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 1,057,515
+ Greater Riverside/San Bernardino MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 942,738
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 712,819
+ Greater Saint Louis MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 136,254
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 709,920
+ Greater San Antonio MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 287,218
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 529,613
+ Greater San Diego MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 777,480
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 818,936
+ Greater San Francisco/Oakland MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 1,481,428
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 867,735
+ Greater San Jose MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 777,983
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 277,253
+ Greater Seattle MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 725,640
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 1,341,462
+ Greater Tampa MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 437,603
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 1,429,890
+ Greater Washington D.C. MSA:
- International Foreign Born Population (Immigrants from outside the United States): 1,435,547
- American Domestic Migrants (Migrants from within the United States): 2,676,043
MSAs that are bigger destinations to foreign born immigrants than to domestic born Americans, 2017:
- Greater Chicago MSA
- Greater Houston MSA
- Greater Los Angeles MSA
- Greater Miami/Fort Lauderdale MSA
- Greater New York MSA
- Greater Riverside/San Bernardino MSA
- Greater San Francisco/Oakland MSA
- Greater San Jose MSA
MSAs that are bigger destinations to domestic born Americans than to foreign born immigrants, 2017:
- Greater Atlanta MSA
- Greater Austin MSA
- Greater Boston MSA
- Greater Charlotte MSA
- Greater Cleveland MSA
- Greater Dallas/Fort Worth MSA
- Greater Denver MSA
- Greater Detroit MSA
- Greater Minneapolis/Saint Paul MSA
- Greater Orlando MSA
- Greater Philadelphia MSA
- Greater Phoenix MSA
- Greater Portland MSA
- Greater Saint Louis MSA
- Greater San Antonio MSA
- Greater San Diego MSA
- Greater Seattle MSA
- Greater Tampa MSA
- Greater Washington D.C. MSA
Chicago now joins New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami/Fort Lauderdale, San Francisco/Oakland, Riverside/San Bernardino, and San Jose for the first time with more foreign-born immigrants than domestic-born migrants.
Maybe I misunderstood, but this excludes people from the same state, which is ludicrous in a way; seeing as there aren't any actual legal or migration steps, a person going from Houston to Dallas seems like just as much a domestic migrant as someone going from Tulsa or Shreveport to Dallas.
Any speculation on which of the eight metros with more international than domestic migrants would switch if domestic numbers included people from the same state as the metro?
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.. Benjamin Disraeli
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