Migration + Wealth Flow Explorer

State · Census age data

Arkansas: where millennials are moving

Adults born 1981 to 1996 who lived in a different state one year earlier, from the Census Bureau’s 2024 American Community Survey. These are survey estimates of people, shown with their margins of error.

The Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey estimates that about 13,400 adults born 1981 to 1996 moved to Arkansas from another state in the prior year, while about 14,200 moved away. The difference, about -700, is smaller than the survey's margin of error (plus or minus 3,500), so this data cannot say whether Arkansas gained or lost millennials on net.

The most common destination for millennials leaving Arkansas was Texas, at about 2,200 people (plus or minus 1,300).

Moved in from other states

13,424

people · margin of error ±2,263

Moved out to other states

14,163

people · margin of error ±3,212

Net change

-739

people · margin of error ±3,547

Too close to call: smaller than the margin of error

States receiving millennials from Arkansas

Shaded by estimated people leaving for each state. Hover a state for the estimate and its margin of error.

Top destination states

StatePeople (estimate)Margin of errorConfidence
Texas2,236±1,308Good
Mississippi2,043±1,532Small sample
Florida1,793±1,346Small sample
Missouri968±578Good
Louisiana737±439Good
Oklahoma731±469Small sample
Kansas685±532Small sample
California640±469Small sample
Nevada614±846Too small to rely on
Illinois531±436Small sample
Tennessee530±505Small sample
Ohio379±473Too small to rely on
South Carolina370±427Too small to rely on
Virginia363±450Too small to rely on
Washington246±289Too small to rely on

Showing the 15 largest of 26 states with movers in the survey sample. Smaller flows rest on only a handful of survey responses.

Why this does not match the IRS view

The All households view counts tax-filing households of every age from 2022 to 2023 IRS records. This view counts individual people in one age group from a 2024 Census survey. They measure different things in different years, so the two sets of numbers are shown side by side and never added together. Census age data stops at the state level, so there is no county detail here. More in the guide.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 American Community Survey 1-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). Estimates and 90% margins of error calculated by Home Grown Property Group from the person file and its replicate weights. Counts people ages 18 and over living in the 50 states or D.C. who lived in a different state or D.C. one year earlier; moves from abroad and Puerto Rico are not included. This product uses Census Bureau data but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.