Atlas Van Lines report shows Maine has the No. 3 ‘inbound’ rate of moves
Maine had a net gain of 101 households last year, according to Atlas Van Lines' annual migration study.
We’ve already seen that the home buying market is hot right now, but now a leading mover says Maine ranks near high on the list of places where people are moving.
Atlas Van Lines, which puts out an annual migration study, says 254 households moved into Maine last year, while 153 moved out — a net gain of 101 households. In the past decade, only one year, 2017, had more of an inbound flow, with a net gain of 104 households.
Maine ranked No. 3 for 2020, with an inbound move rate of 62.4%.
Idaho ranked No. 1, with an inbound move rate, followed by North Carolina.
States with large urban populations lead the “outbound” moves list: New York was at the bottom, followed by Illinois and New Jersey.
Elsewhere in New England, New Hampshire ranked No. 4 on the “inbound” list, with a rate of 61.6%. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont all saw more people moving out than moving in.
Not surprisingly, Atlas cited the pandemic as the primary motivation for moving.
“Millions of Americans relocated in 2020 because of COVID-19, moving out of college dorms that abruptly closed, moving back to home states to work remotely, moving out of housing that no longer suited their lifestyle and more,” the company said in a news release. “Alternatively, companies relocated employees at much lower rates for work assignments in the U.S. and abroad. It’s clear COVID-19 was a deciding factor in moving patterns in 2020, having a unique impact on moving trends.”
The last year where Maine had more households leaving than coming in was 2010, with a net loss of 20 households, according to the Atlas data.
Atlas Van Lines looked at more than 68,000 interstate moves from Jan. 1, 2020, to Dec. 11, 2020.
Atlas, which is based in Evansville, Ind., and has 430 moving agents in the U.S. and Canada, started the migration study in 1993. It is part of the privately held Atlas World Group.
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