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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 6.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Hist. 2016 Winter;40(4):707–470. doi: 10.1017/ssh.2016.28

Table 1.

Estimated Adult Domestic Migration by 1935 State of Residence

State Migration type Total
% of adults in migration type
Stayed in county Intercounty/Intrastate move Interstate move
Alabama 1,359,598 96,101 68,491 1,524,190
89.2 6.31 4.49
Arizona 196,343 14,777 24,019 235,139
83.5 6.28 10.21
Arkansas 904,154 77,218 79,705 1,061,077
85.21 7.28 7.51
California 3,560,988 367,511 115,219 4,043,718
88.06 9.09 2.85
Colorado 531,664 57,350 55,670 644,684
82.47 8.9 8.64
Connecticut 1,021,383 19,813 29,197 1,070,393
95.42 1.85 2.73
Delaware 149,723 1,742 5,774 157,239
95.22 1.11 3.67
Dist. of Columbia 341,208 0 32,536 373,744
91.29 0 8.71
Florida 885,954 73,582 45,629 1,005,165
88.14 7.32 4.54
Georgia 1,455,648 126,115 63,783 1,645,546
88.46 7.66 3.88
Idaho 223,837 23,408 24,170 271,415
82.47 8.62 8.91
Illinois 4,715,569 177,628 218,927 5,112,124
92.24 3.47 4.28
Indiana 1,906,166 125,113 78,931 2,110,210
90.33 5.93 3.74
Iowa 1,339,286 118,863 90,633 1,548,782
86.47 7.67 5.85
Kansas 952,265 85,748 109,383 1,147,396
82.99 7.47 9.53
Kentucky 1,438,411 80,828 71,302 1,590,541
90.44 5.08 4.48
Louisiana 1,200,842 71,176 35,566 1,307,584
91.84 5.44 2.72
Maine 463,464 21,564 13,541 498,569
92.96 4.33 2.72
Maryland 995,452 29,203 32,617 1,057,272
94.15 2.76 3.09
Massachusetts 2,532,894 84,696 71,260 2,688,850
94.2 3.15 2.65
Michigan 2,886,555 190,914 86,849 3,164,318
91.22 6.03 2.74
Minnesota 1,518,284 110,082 71,136 1,699,502
89.34 6.48 4.19
Mississippi 989,627 95,532 39,849 1,125,008
87.97 8.49 3.54
Missouri 2,108,622 127,600 155,807 2,392,029
88.15 5.33 6.51
Montana 269,676 29,275 27,170 326,121
82.69 8.98 8.33
Nebraska 702,010 67,731 88,426 858,167
81.8 7.89 10.3
Nevada 45,020 4,092 8,082 57,194
78.71 7.15 14.13
New Hampshire 270,340 5,937 10,794 287,071
94.17 2.07 3.76
New Jersey 2,425,833 98,628 79,633 2,604,094
93.15 3.79 3.06
New Mexico 204,125 14,723 19,136 237,984
85.77 6.19 8.04
New York 8,114,585 225,695 228,054 8,568,334
94.7 2.63 2.66
North Carolina 1,639,261 112,437 44,755 1,796,453
91.25 6.26 2.49
North Dakota 313,584 23,175 42,022 378,781
82.79 6.12 11.09
Ohio 4,018,762 209,068 142,849 4,370,679
91.95 4.78 3.27
Oklahoma 1,065,432 127,046 141,546 1,334,024
79.87 9.52 10.61
Oregon 528,513 68,990 44,908 642,411
82.27 10.74 6.99
Pennsylvania 5,789,001 197,106 161,113 6,147,220
94.17 3.21 2.62
Rhode Island 421,421 4,666 12,498 438,585
96.09 1.06 2.85
South Carolina 871,526 48,602 32,331 952,459
91.5 5.1 3.39
South Dakota 317,760 31,049 42,232 391,041
81.26 7.94 10.8
Tennessee 1,480,037 86,456 76,406 1,642,899
90.09 5.26 4.65
Texas 3,075,063 464,807 134,326 3,674,196
83.69 12.65 3.66
Utah 265,103 17,161 22,743 305,007
86.92 5.63 7.46
Vermont 187,575 8,509 8,812 204,896
91.55 4.15 4.3
Virginia 1,326,306 64,306 46,343 1,436,955
92.3 4.48 3.23
Washington 904,744 86,388 60,278 1,051,410
86.05 8.22 5.73
West Virginia 932,077 54,051 39,748 1,025,876
90.86 5.27 3.87
Wisconsin 1,780,784 101,204 62,391 1,944,379
91.59 5.2 3.21
Wyoming 113,452 8,660 14,477 136,589
83.06 6.34 10.6
Total 70,739,927 4,336,326 3,211,067 78,287,320
90.36 5.54 4.10