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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 largest single source of millennials arriving in Utah was California, at about 4,000 people (plus or minus 1,700), followed by Arizona and Idaho.

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 sending millennials to Utah

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
California3,995±1,729Good
Arizona1,972±1,021Good
Idaho1,747±887Good
Minnesota1,709±2,089Too small to rely on
New York1,544±1,463Small sample
Oregon1,363±940Small sample
Colorado1,206±675Good
Virginia1,080±1,111Too small to rely on
Missouri695±637Small sample
Florida677±611Small sample
Michigan663±890Too small to rely on
Oklahoma580±595Too small to rely on
Pennsylvania572±699Too small to rely on
Ohio562±573Too small to rely on
Nevada546±531Small 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.