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Minnesota: 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 30,600 adults born 1981 to 1996 moved to Minnesota from another state in the prior year, while about 24,900 moved away. The difference, about +5,700, is smaller than the survey's margin of error (plus or minus 6,800), so this data cannot say whether Minnesota gained or lost millennials on net.

The most common destination for millennials leaving Minnesota was Wisconsin, at about 5,200 people (plus or minus 2,900).

Moved in from other states

30,610

people · margin of error ±4,782

Moved out to other states

24,899

people · margin of error ±4,762

Net change

+5,711

people · margin of error ±6,766

Too close to call: smaller than the margin of error

States receiving millennials from Minnesota

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
Wisconsin5,230±2,859Good
Illinois1,718±1,174Small sample
Utah1,709±2,089Too small to rely on
Texas1,569±1,272Small sample
Florida1,310±929Small sample
Washington1,252±1,031Small sample
Tennessee1,005±705Small sample
North Dakota993±756Small sample
Colorado946±910Small sample
New Mexico832±742Small sample
South Dakota831±1,008Too small to rely on
California683±369Good
Michigan632±607Small sample
Pennsylvania543±787Too small to rely on
Iowa533±433Small sample

Showing the 15 largest of 36 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.