Migration + Wealth Flow Explorer

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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 most common destination for millennials leaving Connecticut was New York, at about 3,500 people (plus or minus 1,300), followed by Massachusetts.

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 receiving millennials from Connecticut

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
New York3,542±1,262Good
Massachusetts1,781±876Good
Florida1,752±1,278Small sample
Pennsylvania1,665±1,375Small sample
Texas1,663±1,131Small sample
Georgia1,343±843Small sample
North Carolina1,245±695Good
California1,183±582Good
Illinois977±1,000Too small to rely on
New Jersey770±870Too small to rely on
District of Columbia767±892Too small to rely on
Rhode Island665±634Small sample
Vermont658±900Too small to rely on
Colorado625±544Small sample
Tennessee547±586Too small to rely on

Showing the 15 largest of 33 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.