Moving

May 28, 2008

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Profile America — Wednesday, May 28th. If there were a theme song this month, it would be Willie Nelson’s “On The Road Again,” as May kicks off the busiest moving season of the year. It’s a time when moving vans and rental trucks show up in driveways all across the country. Each year, nearly 40 million of us change our address — a number that has held fairly steady for some years. A majority — some 25 million — of these moves are within the same county. Men and women in their 20s are more apt to move, in the search for a better place to live, and in response to marriage, childbirth and changing jobs. Renters are more likely to move than homeowners and the rate of moving is lowest for those 65 and older. You can find these and more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at <www.census.gov>.

Sources: Chase's Calendar of Events 2008, p. 247
Statistical Abstract of the United States 2008, t. 30, 31
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2008edition.html