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Show West and Northwest most moved to areas in the U.S. NORTH SALT LAKE Hie 24th annual Allied Van Lines Magnet States Report shows a significant movement into the wide open spaces of the Northwest. Although Washington, D.C. topped the worldwide moving company's list of inbound moves for the fourth consecutive year, the next six states experiencing the greatest influx of new households are ail found in the West and Northwest. "A "magnet state" has a minimum of 55 percent of its total Allied interstate relocation activity moving into the state," said John Walker, president, Bailey's Moving Mov-ing and Storage of North Salt Lake. The world's leading mover of families, Allied tracked track-ed more than 150,000 domestic interstate shipments in this year's report According to Walker, "There were some surprises this year, particularly in Montana, a state that appeared on the Magnet States list last year. In 1990 Montana ranked 12th with 57.8 percent of inbound moves. For 1991, Montana moved to third place reporting 66 percent per-cent of its relocation activity into the state." Eighteen states made the Magnet States list for 1991. In descending order they include: Washington, D.C. (treated as a state for this report), Oregon, Montana, Nevada, Alaska, Washington, Colorado, Maine, Georgia, and North Carolina as the top ten. All of these states reported inbound moves of 60 percent per-cent or more. The remaining Magnet States are: Arizona, Alabama, Vermont, South Carolina, New Mexico, Arkansas, Hawaii and Utah. Thirteen states experienced outbound movement in 1991 with North Dakota ranking number one for the eighth consecutive year. "Although North Dakota remains No. 1 for reloca tions out of the state, this pattern is beginning to slow down," noted Walker. "In 1990, North Dakota's outbound movement was 71.9 percent, while it went down to 64.6 percent in 1991. The state may be benefiting from the current popularity of the neighboring states to the west." Reflecting the economic conditions of 1991, the other states reporting outbound moves were: New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Michigan, California, Illinois, Oklahoma, Wyoming, South Dakota and Pennsylvania. Michigan and Illinois appeared on the outbound list for the first time since the early 1980s. California remains the most mobile state with the greatest number of total moves (32,808), although for the second year in a row it has had more than the 55 percent of its shipments moving out of the state. Between 1987 and 1989, California had shown fairly equal movement both in and out of the state. Other states making up the list of ten most active based on total number of moves include: Florida, Texas, Illinois, New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Washington and Georgia. "We're seeing a very different mobility pattern from what we had ten years ago," added Walker. "In 1981, the top five states for inbound moves included first place Alaska, followed by Texas, Arizona, Washington and Florida. "While the Southwest and Southeast remain popular, the trend is definitely heading to the Northwest, Nor-thwest, where the lack of urban sprawl seems to be more important than the southern climate. Even Hawaii, which ranked No. 5 in our Magnet States last year, has now dropped down to No. 17, just above Utah," noted Walker. |