It’s no secret that people are leaving San Francisco during the epidemic, and a new study finds that many commuters across the country are fleeing expensive metropolitan areas, with Chicagoans and New Yorkers moving to Florida, while Austin and Seattle are attracting the most “ex” Californians.
Real estate information site Zillow released the company’s first migration report on June 6, finding that 11 percent of Americans moved last year, which is higher than the 9.8 percent migration figure reported by the U.S. Census Bureau between 2018 and 2019.
During the 2019 coronavirus outbreak, San Francisco’s apartment vacancy rate increased, rents dropped, and “out of San Francisco” was no longer news. According to the U.S. Postal Service, six of the 15 major “exodus” locations are still in the San Francisco Bay Area, indicating that San Franciscans are not moving too far away from their new addresses.
However, a report by Zillow, in collaboration with North American Van Lines, shows different results. The data, which analyzes the van routes of moving companies, shows examples of interstate migration, and that San Francisco is not the largest city with the most talent exodus.
According to Zillow’s migration report, Chicago topped the list of the top five cities in the U.S. during the epidemic, followed by New York, Los Angeles and San Diego, and San Francisco ranked 5th.
According to the Zillow Migration Report, Chicago topped the list of the top 5 cities in the U.S. during the epidemic, followed by New York, Los Angeles and San Diego, and San Francisco ranked 5th. (Photo from zillowgroup.com)
The two major cities where Chicagoans are moving to are Phoenix and Sarasota, Florida; New York has the most people moving south to Charlotte, North Carolina and Miami, Florida.
Those exiting Los Angeles and San Diego choose Dallas, Texas, and Dallas-Fort Worth and Phoenix, Arizona, which are 40 minutes apart.
Austin, Texas and Seattle, Washington are the most popular cities where “former” Los Angelenos, San Diegans and San Franciscans intersect.
The top five cities for San Franciscans to move to are Seattle, followed by Austin, Portland, Oregon, Phoenix, Arizona, and Denver, Colorado.
Those who moved away from San Francisco’s South Bay Silicon Valley in San Jose made Austin, Denver, Boulder, Colorado (Boulder), Charlotte, North Carolina (Charlotte) and Fayetteville, Arkansas (Fayetteville) as their new homes.
Jeff Tucker, senior economist at Zillow, said Americans have been moving away from expensive big cities in droves since as early as 2018 in search of affordable, mid-sized city living, a trend exacerbated by the epidemic. Thirty-one percent of survey participants said they would move away for a year or more, and 76 percent said emotional factors made it difficult for them to move, while 80 percent of those who moved to a new city said it was “worth it” and 50 percent of those who moved “felt happy and more relaxed after moving.
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