Americans are moving into these 10 states in droves
A lot of people moved to Washington DC, Alaska, and Wyoming in the last couple years.
The US Census Bureau's American Community Survey asks a set of questions about economics, demographics, social characteristics, and housing to about 1% of the US population each year. Among the many topics on the survey, respondents are asked whether they moved houses in the previous year, and if so, where their previous house was.
A handful of states had 4% or more of their population moving to that state in the previous year:
- Washington, DC: 8.7%
- Wyoming: 4.6%
- Alaska: 4.3%
- Idaho: 4.3%
- Colorado: 4.1%
- Hawaii: 4.1%
- Nevada: 4.1%
- Arizona: 4.0%
- New Hampshire: 4.0%
- North Dakota: 4.0%
This map shows the percentage of each state's population over the age of one year that responded they had moved from a house in a different state in the previous year, according to the 2016 ACS 1-year estimates:
