When people leave Upstate New York, where do they move to?
And where do new migrants to the Upstate region come from? The New York Minute,
an oline publication of Cornell University’s Community & Regional Development
Institute (CaRDI), produced in collaboration with the Program on Applied
Demographics, just released an interesting look at who moves into, and
out of, upstate New York.
Upstate New York for these purposes is defined
as anything in New York north of Rockland and Westchester Counties.
Basically CaRDI looked at the County to County Migration
flows in the 2010 American Communities Survey (ACS) Five Year Estimates and
identified the top 5 origins and destinations for different age groups within the Upstate New York area. What
they found was that “Upstate” receives a significant number of in-migrants from
the downstate New York region, from Florida, and from countries in Asia.
A significant number of movers out of “Upstate” head to Florida,
to downstate New York, and to Pennsylvania, among other locations. And
these origins and destinations do seem to vary by the age of mover.
The graphic below, taken from the New York Minute, shows these breakdowns by
age groups nicely.
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To see the full data, visit: Cornell's Program for Applied Dempgraphics.
