Trying to anticipate the next cool place millennials will flock to can be like predicting the weather. However, that being said, the folks over at 24/7 Wall St. crunched numbers from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to come up with the 40 top places where young people are moving. After looking at migration to U.S. counties, they ranked them based on the number of 25 to 34-year-olds who moved there from a different county in 2016 as a share of the total county population. Indeed…
“The primary reason people move is for work. Many young people move for jobs in service-providing industries…”
“Young people also tend to move to more urban areas. Of the 40 counties on this list, 36 are located in commuting zones classified as metropolitan…”
