Are Americans Stuck in Place? Declining Residential Mobility in the US

Are Americans Stuck in Place? Declining Residential Mobility in the US RESEARCH BRIEF Are Americans Stuck in Place? Declining Residential Mobility in the US MAY 2020 | RIORDAN FROST In the 1980s, nearly one in five Americans moved every year. [...] Local moves are so common that they drive the trends domestic migration in recent years include many states in mobility, but interstate migration is particularly in the Rust Belt, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, and important because of its implications for regional Ohio, and parts of the Northeast, including New Jersey, economic growth and the effects it has on household Connecticut, and Massac. [...] Housing was the most common reason behind 2006 and 2018, the number of renter households moving moves in 2019, accounting for 40 percent of moves, with each year dropped by almost 1 million, and the share family motivating 27 percent of moves, jobs motivating of renter households moving each year dropped from 21 percent of moves, and other reasons accounting for 32 percent to 24 percent (Figure 4). [...] In this ten-year period, there were notable increases in the There is no consensus about any one factor that may sizes of the 25-34 year-old age group and the 65 and be driving the historic declines in mobility. [...] According to ACS data, over 60 Whatever the reasons for this trend, the fact remains percent of family households had two or more workers that at the end of the 2010s, the new normal was a less in 2018, and 11.1 percent of those households moved in mobile America.