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CPS Historical Migration/Geographic Mobility Tables
CPS Historical Migration/Geographic Mobility Tables
Visualizations of the historical tables are located in the "related information" section on the right side of this page. Please click on the icon titled "CPS Historical Geographic Mobility/Migration Graphs".
Table A-1. Annual Geographic Mobility Rates, By Type of Movement: 1948-2021
Table A-2. Annual Inmigration, Outmigration, Net Migration, and Movers from Abroad for Regions: 1981-2021
Table A-3. Inmigration, Outmigration, and Net Migration by Metropolitan Status: 1986-2021
The U.S. Census Bureau reviewed this data product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and approved the disclosure avoidance practices applied to this release. CBDRB-FY22-008.
Note for 2021 tables: Data collection for the CPS ASEC occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-related changes to survey operations and related nonresponse may have influenced CPS ASEC estimates in 2021.
Note: As of September 2022, these historical tables include corrections to errors. Please replace any previously downloaded historical tables.
User Notes for CPS-ASEC Migration/Geographic Mobility data are accessible here:
Geographic Mobility User Notes
Notes related to redesigns, omissions and corrections.
ASEC User Note: Redesign of the Geographic Mobility Table Package: 2021
Some revisions were made for the 2021 Geographic Mobility table package.
ASEC User Note: Updates to Reasons for Moving Categories: 2020
Updates to the reason for moving categories included the addition of a new category, “relationship with unmarried partner (boy/girlfriend, fiancé, etc.).”
ASEC User Note: Migration Questions 1971 through 1980
The 1-year geographic mobility question was not asked from 1972 to 1975 and from 1977 to 1980.
ASEC User Note: Distance of Move Estimates from 2003 to 2005
A change in processing resulted in a shift in the distribution of movers and distance moved between the 2002-2003 to 2004-2005 periods.
ASEC User Note: 2014 CPS ASEC Sample
The source of data for the 2014 tables is the CPS ASEC sample of 98,000 addresses.
ASEC User Note: Migration Question Wording Change in 2004
Before 2004, the question asked about residence on March 1 of the previous year. As of 2004, it asked about residence one year ago.
ASEC User Note: Potential Display Issue, Reason for Move: 2012-2015
A potential display issue in the data collection instrument could have introduced response bias during the 2012-2015 CPS-ASEC data collection.
ASEC User Note: Reason for Move Write-In Expansion Recoding Updates
This is a revised version of a user note originally published in 2016. It includes some updates and corrections since the original user note.
ASEC User Note: Revised: Reason for Move Write-In Expansion
This is a revised version of a user note originally published in 2016. It includes some updates and corrections since the original user note.
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Page Last Revised - September 19, 2022
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