Where Americans moved in 2024

The 25 biggest state-to-state moves

Ranked by the number of people who moved from one state to the other in 2024. Where we have a cost guide for the corridor, the route links to it.

Where people leaving Massachusetts went

182,315 people left Massachusetts for another state in 2024, and 151,762 moved in. These were the most common destinations. If you're moving from Boston, our guide to moving out of Boston and the Boston long-distance page cover costs and timing.

Net migration for every state

Sorted from the biggest gain to the biggest loss. States marked ≈ have a net change smaller than its margin of error, so the survey can't tell their result apart from zero.

What this means if you're moving

Busy corridors cut both ways. On the most popular routes out of a state, trucks fill up fast in summer, so book four to six weeks ahead for a June–August move. On the reverse direction, carriers often have empty space coming back, which can make the “against the flow” trip easier to schedule. Our moving cost calculator estimates any route by distance and home size.

Methodology

Figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year state-to-state migration table. That table counts people aged one and over who lived in a different state a year earlier. We kept the 50 states and DC and left out Puerto Rico and moves from abroad. Net migration is moves in from other states minus moves out to other states. These are survey estimates. Margins of error are at the 90% confidence level. For state totals we approximated them as the square root of the sum of the squared flow margins, which is the Census Bureau's recommended method for sums.