Show Davis Residents Make More Moves Than Residents of Davis County keep on the move to a greater extent than do people in most parts of or the United States ITS TS POPULATION is found round to be a relatively mobile one because of the tendency of or lo to local cal cat families to pick up and move more frequently than is usual The f findIngs arc are from a are re report report re- re port issued by the Department of or Commerce following 2 study tudy it made of data gath gath- ered red in connection with the thc 1960 IT SHOW THAT residents res res- dents of Davis County were living in different houses than thanas was as the case five years be- be fore ore This is is' is exclusive of oC chit chil dren ren under the age agee of five who vho have not yet had time to lo tob b b. b very mobile C Cf I f the who moved 1054 merely changed loca ons within the local county The other arrived from outside places to take up reSIdence rest reSI dence Bence in the tho community now HOW MANY Y might have left eft on the other hand to lo live elsewhere is not Indicated What it il boils down to is that 58 out of or every people in Davis County were living in indifferent different houses in 1960 than they hey had occupied in 1955 TINS TillS MOBILITY rate 58 percent exceeds the rate reported reported re re- re ported for Cor the United States State as s a whole Nationally 47 percent per perr cent changed residence In the year five period The rate rale given for the Moun Mountain tarn tain am States Stales is 56 percent and for the state of Utah 49 per percent cent VARIOUS FACTORS lead people to change residence Some of them are arc economic U If 1 their incomes go up they want vant to live in better style le so they Uley switch to swankier houses in more expensive ar ar- ar- ar Or a job or business opportunity t t that Is attractive may present itself in another sec sec- section lion tion and a move is in order SOMETIMES the change is due to an increase or decrease in the size of oC the family mak making making making ing a change to lo other quarters tors desirable All in all nU it is a rare indi vidual victual who lives in the same saml house all his life IN DAVIS COUNTY COUr accord Lag ng to the report only 1837 people three percent of the over-five over population still sUU live liven in n the houses in which the they were born |