Checking in on my hometown(s)
I’m on vacation this week visiting family in Raleigh, so I thought I would check in on what the recently released 2020 population data had […]
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Christmas in August for demographers
Let the barrage of hot takes on which places are growing, which places are “dying,” and which places are earning spots on the click-baity best-of […]
Read moreGolden State Debate: Are “most” people moving to Austin from California? (2019 update)
Few topics can get Austinites going like the role of migration, and particularly transplants from California, in the city’s astounding growth. It’s the problem people […]
Read moreIs Cary Still C-A-R-Y? Out-of-State Movers to Wake County, 1993-2018
Growing up in Raleigh, there was a joke about the nearby suburb of Cary standing for Containment Area for Relocated Yankees. As the son of […]
Read moreThe Californians Are Coming, the Californians Are Coming
Receptions can be frosty in Portland, Seattle, and, increasingly, Austin, but nobody has absorbed transplants from California quite like Las Vegas and Reno. One out […]
Read moreIRS: Davidson County among national leaders in attracting residents from out of state
Davidson County was among the leaders nationally in attracting residents from out of state in 2017-2018, according to new data from the Internal Revenue Service […]
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