What are the big U.S. cities that more people are moving to – and moving away from? This article from The Washington Post looks at new Census Bureau data for the 10 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. – New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, Washington, Miami, Atlanta, Boston and San Francisco – to plot annual migration totals from city to city.
In any given year, about 8.5 million people move from one metropolitan area to another within the United States – from the Washington, D.C., region up to New York, or from New York to Philadelphia and farther away. These major moves – distinct from the kind you make across town, or even from the city to the suburbs – make up a relatively small share of all migration. Only about one in five movers today decamps for another metro area entirely.
But these moves are where the metro bragging rights lie.
You can see how regional proximity plays a big role in metro migration trends. More than 13,000 people head from Dallas to Houston each year, with a similar amount moving in the opposite direction. But the two Texas cities don’t see much in the way of migration to and from the other major metro areas in the chart, and they stand apart for sending particularly few people to New York.
