Texas and the Carolinas continue to attract the most new residents from individuals who move to a different state while California and New York are the big losers, according to a new analysis of domestic migration patterns from Apartment List.

“From 2023 to 2024, states with some of the nation’s largest, densest and most expensive population centers continued to lose population to states in the Sun Belt and Mountain West regions,” the report stated, citing Census data.

Apartment List’s own data showed that 39% of its users were searching in the same state but in a different metro, while a quarter were searching out of state locations – trends that are fairly stable.

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