If moving trucks are any indication, the outward migration of Connecticut residents continued for the fifth straight year in 2015. An Atlas Van Lines Co. study said Connecticut was one of 18 outbound states for moving vans.
For the fifth straight year, Connecticut is classified as outbound in Atlas’ study, meaning more than 55 percent of shipments were going out of the state. In the last decade, it has either been classified as outbound or balanced, which means outbound traffic was below 55 percent.
The Northeastern states saw three major changes from 2014 to 2015, with Maine and Rhode Island going from balanced to inbound. Also, New Hampshire went from an inbound to balanced. The remainder of the states did not undergo any status change in 2015. New York and New Jersey have been outbound states for more than 13 years.
For the fourth consecutive year, the states with the highest number of total moves were California (14,973), Texas (12,403) and Florida (10,534). The states with the highest percentage of inbound moves included Oregon (64 percent), Idaho (63 percent), North Carolina (61 percent), Alaska (60 percent), and North Dakota (59 percent). The states with the highest percentage of outbound moves included Hawaii (62 percent), New York (61.8 percent), Illinois (61.7 percent), South Dakota (60 percent) and Wyoming (59.5 percent). Oregon is the study’s inbound leader for its first time since 1995, and Hawaii the outbound leader since its same classification in 1997.
