Who Moves The Most?

25 September 2003 - 7:00am

The Census Bureau reports that nearly half of the population moved to different homes in the five years prior to the 2000 census.

"Nevada, the fastest-growing state during the 1990s, had the highest percentage of movers at 63 percent, followed by Colorado and Arizona, both at 56 percent. About one-quarter of Nevada's population moved in from another state from 1995 to 2000... Warm-weather destinations in the South and West that were unattractive decades ago are now more livable because of technology and upgraded infrastructure systems, said Robert Lang, a demographer at the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech in Alexandria. 'Air-conditioning and the interstate highway system defeated the remoteness of these places,' Lang said."

Source: The Arizona Republic, September 24, 2003
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