More families moved out of Ohio than moved into the state
last year, according to reports from three of the nation’s largest moving
companies. While each company’s records show only a small subset of all
relocations across state lines, their annual reports offer a glimpse at
interstate migration before the release of the U.S. Census
Bureau’s yearly state-to-state migration data.
Ohio’s ratio of inbound to outbound moves ranked 44th of
the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia in the United Van Lines 2014
National Movers Study. United listed Ohio as a “High Outbound” state
because more than 55 percent of the company’s 7,641 Ohio moves were outbound. United
reported 1,371 net outbound moves in Ohio during 2014. Of the 48 contiguous
states, only New Jersey, Illinois and New York had a higher number of net
outbound moves than Ohio. “With Ohio’s
middling job growth since 2011, it isn’t a surprise that people are voting with
their feet by moving to states where opportunities exist and the path to
prosperity isn’t so long,” Matt Mayer, president of free market think tank
Opportunity Ohio, told Ohio Watchdog via email.
Ohio’s economy has added fewer than 300,000 jobs since
January 2011, although the state lost 455,000 jobs from March 2006
through February 2010. For the first three quarters of 2014, Ohio’s job
creation rate ranked 44th nationally. In Opportunity Ohio’s most recent monthly
Ohio Jobs Recovery report, Mayer projected Ohio would not likely
recover to peak March 2000 employment levels until late 2020. Read More…
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