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Connecticut: 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 24,500 adults born 1981 to 1996 moved to Connecticut from another state in the prior year, while about 23,100 moved away. The difference, about +1,500, is smaller than the survey's margin of error (plus or minus 5,300), so this data cannot say whether Connecticut gained or lost millennials on net.

The largest single source of millennials arriving in Connecticut was New York, at about 8,900 people (plus or minus 2,700), followed by Massachusetts and New Jersey.

Moved in from other states

24,531

people · margin of error ±3,977

Moved out to other states

23,081

people · margin of error ±3,851

Net change

+1,450

people · margin of error ±5,287

Too close to call: smaller than the margin of error

States sending millennials to Connecticut

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

Top origin states

StatePeople (estimate)Margin of errorConfidence
New York8,937±2,654Good
Massachusetts3,942±1,495Good
New Jersey1,308±682Good
Ohio1,019±579Good
Florida992±530Good
California904±565Small sample
Alabama676±1,070Too small to rely on
Missouri564±817Too small to rely on
Georgia477±374Small sample
North Carolina473±402Small sample
Nevada454±588Too small to rely on
Pennsylvania450±361Small sample
Vermont417±463Too small to rely on
New Hampshire412±443Too small to rely on
Texas374±281Small sample

Showing the 15 largest of 30 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.