ORLANDO, Fla. – In 2024, Realtors® reported that their recent clients chose to move to a specific area primarily to be closer to family and friends (30%) and to get more home for the money (21%), according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors®.
NAR’s 2024 Migration Trends report analyzes the drivers and motivators of Realtors’ clients who move to different areas nationwide to understand and measure why people are moving to certain areas, while available U.S. Census Bureau data provides information surrounding where and in what volumes Americans are moving. The NAR report also breaks down regional differences by movers to the Midwest, Northeast, South and West.
U.S. Census Bureau data from 2023 finds the top 20 states with the highest net migration include Florida (372,870), Texas (315,301), North Carolina (126,712), South Carolina (91,853), Georgia (88,325), Tennessee (76,471), Arizona (57,814), Alabama (36,128), Oklahoma (31,967), Ohio (28,718), Indiana (22,468), Arkansas (22,202), Virginia (21,132), Idaho (20,053), Wisconsin (19,301), Colorado (19,167), Missouri (19,023), Kentucky (16,592), Washington (13,643) and Nevada (12,908).