{"id":6243,"date":"2014-04-04T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anthonydidonato.net\/wordpress\/?p=6243"},"modified":"2014-04-04T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:30:12","slug":"people-moving-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anthonydidonato.net\/wordpress\/people-moving-south\/","title":{"rendered":"More People Are Moving South"},"content":{"rendered":"

More People Are Moving South<\/h2>\n

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More People Are Moving South. Image courtesy of ddpavumba \/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net<\/p><\/div>\n

The population is shifting to the South. Between 2010 and 2013, 51 percent of the population increase in 52 major metro nationwide was in the South, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.<\/p>\n

In comparison, the West accounted for 30 percent of the increase, followed by the Northeast at 11 percent and the North Central (Midwest) area at 8 percent.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, the Census Bureau data shows that nearly 785,000 more people moved to major metro areas in the South than moved away. That\u2019s far more than the 170,000 domestic migrants who moved to major metro areas in the West. On the other hand, the Northeast lost 485,000 net domestic migrants while the Midwest lost 280,000.<\/p>\n

The largest growth in domestic migration was to Texas. The Census data showed the following metros as having the largest domestic migration growth between 2010 and 2013:<\/p>\n