Migration + Wealth Flow Explorer

State · Census age data

Utah: 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 23,600 adults born 1981 to 1996 moved to Utah from another state in the prior year, while about 24,100 moved away. The difference, about -500, is smaller than the survey's margin of error (plus or minus 6,400), so this data cannot say whether Utah gained or lost millennials on net.

The most common destination for millennials leaving Utah was California, at about 2,100 people (plus or minus 780), followed by Arizona.

Moved in from other states

23,558

people · margin of error ±3,885

Moved out to other states

24,104

people · margin of error ±4,590

Net change

-546

people · margin of error ±6,417

Too close to call: smaller than the margin of error

States receiving millennials from Utah

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
California2,053±783Good
Arizona1,751±1,036Good
Oklahoma1,660±2,514Too small to rely on
Texas1,623±1,054Small sample
North Carolina1,587±1,377Small sample
Florida1,460±1,284Small sample
Colorado1,213±846Small sample
Oregon1,114±754Small sample
Idaho1,041±579Good
Nevada1,032±600Good
Washington992±875Small sample
Missouri885±690Small sample
North Dakota761±718Small sample
Pennsylvania609±708Too small to rely on
Nebraska566±655Too small to rely on

Showing the 15 largest of 39 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.