Newsletter - Missouri Residents Stay Instate More than National Average

Missouri Residents Stay Instate More than National Average

Nearly seven of every ten current Missouri residents were born in Missouri, slightly higher than the national average. The highest percentage for states retaining residents were Louisiana and New York with over eighty percent of the people born there also staying there to live.

The lowest percentage is in Nevada with fewer than three out of ten residents born there. Other low percentage states were Alaska (41.7%) and Florida (41.9%)

Born in the State of Residence
Rank	State	Percent
1	Louisiana	82.2
2	New York	82.1
3	Michigan	80.9
4	Pennsylvania	79.4
5	Ohio	77.8
6	Illinois	77.4
7	Iowa	75.2
7	Wisconsin	75.2
9	Massachusetts	74.5
10	Minnesota	73.8
11	Alabama	73.5
12	Mississippi	73.3
13	Kentucky	73.2
14	West Virginia	72.7
15	California	72.5
16	Texas	72.2
17	Indiana	71.4
18	North Dakota	71.3
19	Nebraska	69.7
20	Missouri	69.1
21	Utah	68.7
22	South Dakota	67.8
----	United States	67.4
23	Rhode Island	67.2
24	Hawaii	66.0
25	Maine	65.7
26	New Jersey	65.4
27	Tennessee	64.9
28	Oklahoma	64.7
29	Arkansas	63.7
29	Connecticut	63.7
31	North Carolina	63.5
32	South Carolina	62.8
33	Kansas	62.6
34	Georgia	61.4
35	New Mexico	56.5
36	Virginia	56.2
37	Montana	55.5
38	Maryland	54.9
39	Vermont	54.6
40	Washington	53.6
41	Oregon	50.3
42	Delaware	49.3
43	Idaho	49.2
44	Colorado	47.2
45	District of Columbia	45.4
46	New Hampshire	44.8
47	Wyoming	43.4
48	Arizona	42.2
49	Florida	41.9
50	Alaska	41.7
51	Nevada	28.5

The Midwest holds a larger percentage of people born in their current state of residence (70.3%) than any other region. The Northeast is the second highest region with 63.5 percent. The South ranked third with 56.3 percent, followed by the West at 48.5 percent.

US Map of Percentage of Americans Living Where They Were Born

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS Survey