Oregon Continues to be Magnetic to Moving Vans

Welcome to OregonAnother report highlights Oregon’s attractiveness to new residents, based on the number of moving vans entering the state versus those leaving.

United Van Lines released its 2006 study on migration and finds Oregon at #2 overall in the nation for inbound moves. At 64%, only North Carolina tops the Beaver State for overall ratio of inbound to outbound moves. Over 62% of moves involving Oregon were inbound.

Last year, Oregon topped the study. It was the 19th straight year for Oregon to have more entrants than exiters.

This was the 30th annual survey by United Van Lines, which monitored over 227,000 moves in the contiguous U.S. Other high inbound states (>55%) included Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, South Carolina, and Alabama.

High outbound states included much of the upper Midwest, like Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

[tags] moving, immigration, United Van Lines, relocation, inbound, housing, moving [/tags]

Photo by goatopolis, used under Creative Commons license.

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January 15, 2007 · Filed Under Livability, Relocation

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4 Responses to “Oregon Continues to be Magnetic to Moving Vans”

  1. John Carleton on January 15th, 2007 11:34 pm

    It’s nice that you gave me credit for the photo, but did you check the cc license under which this photo is published? It’s Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike. Attribution? Check. Non commercial? Hmmmm…doubtful. Share alike? Nope. I can see by the © at the end of the post that you’re not sharing. For shame.

    Unrelated to that, I thought it was pretty hilarious when I saw the subject matter of this blog post, as I moved from CA to OR end of last year. I’m a statistic!

  2. Ron on January 16th, 2007 12:40 pm

    By request, John’s photo has been removed. Sorry to offend.

  3. TitleRep on January 16th, 2007 1:31 pm

    That’s got to be the first time I’ve seen someone complain about getting credit for someone using their picture. Must have been a good one…

  4. goat on January 29th, 2007 1:18 am

    I actually took this photo during a road trip a couple of years back to check out Oregon as I was looking to move their from Arizona; but ended up in Chicago instead. (better job market)

    A beautiful state (especially along the coast line).

    btw – thanks for using my photo!!

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