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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 largest single source of Boomers and older adults arriving in Ohio was Florida, at about 5,200 people (plus or minus 2,500).

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 sending Boomers and older adults to Ohio

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
Florida5,167±2,457Good
Tennessee1,851±1,345Small sample
South Carolina1,590±892Good
Arizona1,582±875Good
Michigan1,366±806Good
California1,213±903Small sample
Georgia1,192±784Small sample
North Carolina1,136±741Small sample
Virginia1,028±880Small sample
Illinois1,019±636Small sample
Pennsylvania953±509Good
Kentucky911±485Good
West Virginia822±622Small sample
Alabama734±648Small sample
New York730±543Small sample

Showing the 15 largest of 37 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.