Domestic Migration to Dispersion Accelerates (Even before COVID) | Newgeography.com
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In what could turn out to be a “dry run” for the post-COVID19 era, net domestic migration has strongly shifted away from the larger metropolitan areas, to smaller areas. This “sea-change” has occurred since 2015, according to the latest Census Bureau estimates. Domestic migration is reported by the Census Bureau when a resident or household moves from one US county to another (No migration below the county level is reported in Census Bureau population estimates). The era of big metropolitan area domination, so widely proclaimed by pundits, planners and academics, may be coming to an end.