{"id":104010,"date":"2026-02-03T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104010\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:37:07","slug":"the-great-migration-is-over-heres-where-pennsylvania-stands-wpxi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104010\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Migration is over. Here\u2019s where Pennsylvania stands. \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH  \u2014 Migration has been a traditional indicator of regional economic vitality, and the stakes for relocation have become increasingly high in the post-pandemic world \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/bizjournals\/news\/2024\/08\/08\/covid-pandemic-great-migration-over-housing.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">even if the Great Migration is over.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Once again, Pennsylvania ranked low for in-migration within U.S. states, though it did improve from its standing a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">That\u2019s according to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/Articles\/About\/U-Haul-Growth-Index-Texas-Back-ON-Top-As-No-1-Growth-State-Of-2025-36556\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U-Haul Growth Index<\/a>, which analyzed 2.5 million one-way customer transactions from the previous calendar year to rank states by net gain or loss. U-Haul tracked rentals of one-way trucks, trailers and U-Box moving containers that were rented in one state and returned in another across the United States and Canada. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/30\/migration-movement-states-uhaul-pennsylvania.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/30\/migration-movement-states-uhaul-pennsylvania.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Migration has been a traditional indicator of regional economic vitality, and the stakes for relocation have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6100,7619,50255,31545,50254,28,50253,73,75,74,16975,50251,50252],"class_list":{"0":"post-104010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-covid","9":"tag-covid-19","10":"tag-economic-vitality","11":"tag-migration","12":"tag-pandemic","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-pennsylvania-migration","15":"tag-pittsburgh","16":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","17":"tag-pittsburgh-news","18":"tag-relocation","19":"tag-the-great-migration","20":"tag-uhaul-growth-index"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}