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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Environ. 2014 Feb 8;35(3):305–322. doi: 10.1007/s11111-014-0204-5

Table 4.

Top receiving counties in pre-disaster period and sending counties recovery period: Migration probabilities

County State County type Out- flow (pre-) In-flow (recovery) Δ
Panel A. Top receiving and sending counties

Jefferson (New Orleans MSA) Louisiana Coastline 2.63 2.61 −0.01
St. Tammany (New Orleans MSA) Louisiana Coastline 0.48 0.65 0.17
St. Bernard (New Orleans MSA) Louisiana Coastline 0.22 1.21 0.99
East Baton Rouge (Baton Rouge MSA) Louisiana Nearby 0.18 0.57 0.38
Plaquemines (New Orleans MSA) Louisiana Coastline 0.08 1.13 1.05
St. Charles (New Orleans MSA) Louisiana Coastline 0.07 0.70 0.63
St. John The Baptist (New Orleans MSA) Louisiana Coastline 0.06 0.93 0.86
Tangipahoa Louisiana Coastline 0.04 0.27 0.23
Lafayette Louisiana Nearby 0.04 0.18 0.14

Panel B. Top receiving counties

Harris (Houston MSA) Texas Coastline 0.21 0.07 −0.14
Dallas (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA) Texas Distant 0.09 0.03 −0.05
Los Angeles (Los Angeles MSA) California Distant 0.08 0.00 −0.08
Fulton (Atlanta MSA) Georgia Distant 0.06 0.05 −0.02
Cook (Chicago MSA) Illinois Distant 0.06 0.01 −0.06
New York (New York MSA) New York Distant 0.06 0.01 −0.05
DeKalb (Atlanta MSA) Georgia Distant 0.05 0.04 −0.01
San Diego (San Diego MSA) California Distant 0.05 0.01 −0.05
Harrison (Gulfport Biloxi MSA) Mississippi Coastline 0.04 0.08 0.03
Cobb (Atlanta MSA) Georgia Distant 0.04 0.03 −0.01
Tarrant (Dallas Fort Worth MSA) Texas Distant 0.04 0.02 −0.02

Panel C. Top sending counties

St. Helena (Baton Rouge MSA) Louisiana Nearby 0.01 0.37 0.37
St. James Louisiana Nearby 0.01 0.31 0.30
Ascension (Baton Rouge MSA) Louisiana Nearby 0.02 0.23 0.21
Lafourche (Houma-Thibodaux MSA) Louisiana Coastline 0.02 0.22 0.19
Washington Louisiana Nearby 0.02 0.19 0.17
Iberville (Baton Rouge MSA) Louisiana Nearby 0.00 0.19 0.19
Pike Mississippi Nearby 0.01 0.19 0.17
Terrebonne (Houma-Thibodaux MSA) Louisiana Coastline 0.02 0.19 0.16
Hancock (Gulfport-Biloxi MSA) Mississippi Coastline 0.04 0.18 0.15
Adams Mississippi Nearby 0.00 0.18 0.18
Pearl River Mississippi Nearby 0.03 0.16 0.14

Note: Probabilities are multiplied by 100 to facilitate interpretation in percentage terms.

Note: Coastline refers to “disaster-affected coastline counties”; nearby refers to “nearby counties”; and distant refers to “Distant counties.”