![[OC] US Domestic Migration this past Year (Where people moved)](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/xrgetlgqr2gg1-1536x908.png "[OC] US Domestic Migration this past Year (Where people moved)")
Graphic by me, created in Excel. All data from the US census bureau here: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-state-total.html
I wanted to focus on domestic migration to see where people are moving to. I chose to use raw numbers instead of percentages for once to provide a better sense of scale on the bar chart. I used only the most recent year of data to capture the latest "trends".
What factors do you think encourage people to leave certain states and move to others? I have my theories, but will leave them out of this post.
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Graphic by me, created in Excel. All data from the US census bureau here: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-state-total.html
I wanted to focus on domestic migration to see where people are moving to. I chose to use raw numbers instead of percentages for once to provide a better sense of scale on the bar chart. I used only the most recent year of data to capture the latest “trends”.
[Great read on population change this past year from the Census Bureau ](https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/population-growth-slows.html) Keep in mind my graphic only focuses on one aspect of population change.
What factors do you think encourage people to leave certain states and move to others?
You all are moving **to** Texas? Yall have lost your damn minds
Folks abandoning HCOL states makes sense in this economy, but I gotta say… Texas really surprised me lol
I’m curious how this map would look if the colors were normalized based on the starting population of each state.
Without being able to differentiate between people who moved, people who died and people who were born, this is just a chart of population change, which is an interesting metric but not necessarily migration patterns.
Love to see this on a per capita by state. Big states have big numbers.
As a Masshole, the only thing pushing me to move elsewhere is the climate. The state itself is fine, I just wasn’t built for these winters.
the people yearn for % of total population figures
Interesting that the top states migrated to are red states and the top states migrated away from are blue states. I’m sure that’s just a coincidence
I wonder if the people moving to the conservative states (Texas eg) are also conservatives and will therefore vote for Republicans or if they will vote for the Democrats
As someone that moved to Texas 10 years ago, fucking stop coming here. Ruined whatever low cost of living there was.
At least the blue states didn’t destroy the character of the neighborhood by building housing!
/s
Illinois gained 9,000 people between 2024 and 2025. Why are you lying about Blue State populations? I have my theories, but will leave them out of this post.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/IL/PST045224