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Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released a report entitled "Young Adult Migration 2007-2009 to 2010-2012," which looks at 18-34 year olds that moved. The report shows that the migration of young adults declined 1.4 percentage points during the postrecession period. While young adults are still the largest migrant group, much of the decline in migration at the national level between 2006 and 2009 has been because of the decline in the movement of this age group, according to the American Community Survey (ACS).
The Census Bureau also released a new report entitled "U.S. Mover Rate Stable At About 12 Percent Since 2008." For the past several years, the mover rate has remained between 11.5 and 12.5 percent, according to new 2014 statistics released today from the U.S. Census Bureau. The mover rate between 2013 and 2014 was 11.5 percent or 35.7 million people age 1 year and over.
“The two releases and surveys conducted by the Census Bureau provide a detailed picture of migration in the United States,” said Megan Benetsky, an analyst with the Census Bureau’s Journey-to-Work and Migration Statistics Branch and one of the report’s authors. “Migration statistics from the Current Population Survey give us a national view, while the American Community Survey allows us to focus on smaller geographies and more specifically provides the only detailed information available on small population groups, like young adults, at lower levels of geography."
During the postrecession period:
- The migration rate of adults ages 18-34 declined by 1.4 percentage points, while the rate for older adults stayed relatively steady.
- Females 18 to 24 years old had a higher rate of migration than males of the same age (32.4 percent compared with 29.8 percent), but among 25- to 29-year-olds and 30- to 34-year-olds, the pattern reversed, and males were more likely to migrate than females (29.5 percent compared with 28.6 percent, and 22.5 percent compared with 20.4 percent, respectively).
- Non-Hispanics were more likely to migrate than Hispanics. This is especially apparent in the 18- to 24-year-old age group, where 32.9 percent of non-Hispanics migrated in the last year compared with 24.2 percent of Hispanics.
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Employed individuals were least likely to move. Compared with other young adults, those age 30 to 34 who were employed had the lowest migration rate (20.1 percent). The report provides additional detail about young adult migration for metropolitan areas, which can be accessed at www.census.gov.
"When the Current Population Survey started collecting migration information in 1948, about one-in-five people moved over a one-year period,” said David Ihrke, a demographer with the Census Bureau’s Journey-to-Work and Migration Statistics Branch. “Today, that number has fallen to about one in nine.”
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