Migration + Wealth Flow Explorer

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Ohio: where Boomers and older adults are moving

Adults born 1964 or earlier 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 26,300 adults born 1964 or earlier moved to Ohio from another state in the prior year, while about 23,600 moved away. The difference, about +2,600, is smaller than the survey's margin of error (plus or minus 5,200), so this data cannot say whether Ohio gained or lost Boomers and older adults on net.

The most common destination for Boomers and older adults leaving Ohio was Florida, at about 7,200 people (plus or minus 2,300).

Moved in from other states

26,263

people · margin of error ±3,933

Moved out to other states

23,638

people · margin of error ±3,785

Net change

+2,625

people · margin of error ±5,195

Too close to call: smaller than the margin of error

States receiving Boomers and older adults from Ohio

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
Florida7,241±2,263Good
Texas1,560±1,044Small sample
Michigan1,364±676Good
Pennsylvania1,289±1,446Too small to rely on
Kentucky1,211±617Good
Arizona1,085±1,021Small sample
Georgia1,069±852Small sample
Alabama962±804Small sample
Indiana875±489Good
North Carolina866±590Small sample
Oregon770±1,026Too small to rely on
Tennessee538±449Small sample
Nevada533±604Too small to rely on
South Carolina523±384Small sample
West Virginia507±347Small 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.