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The tool determined Georgetown ranked No. 14, with 166 searches for moving into the Texas city for every 100 searches for moving out of it. The Central Texas city\u00a0also ranked No. 10 among the top-rising cities. Its in-to-out ratios jumped 36% from 2024 to 2025, launching its rank 37 positions. Georgetown\u00a0\u2014 along with Roseville, Calif., Cumming, Ga. and Kissimmee, Fla.\u00a0\u2014 proved desirable for proximity to booming cities within urban price tags.<\/p>\n
\u201c[These cities] give movers access to airports and hybrid work arrangements even as they allow breathing room from the hustle and bustle of America\u2019s economic centers,\u201d moveBuddha\u2019s analysis explained. \u201cAnd that\u2019s been a winning formula for retirees\u00a0\u2014 but also many families.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shift in moving preferences by state, 2020-2025<\/p>\n
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MAP: State move-in ratios, 2020-2025<\/p>\n
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While Texas has seen a slight dip in its move-in-to-out ratio since a spike in 2021, it has consistently welcomed more residents than it\u2019s lost each year. The Lone Star State\u2019s ratios over the last six years are as follows:<\/p>\n
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2020:\u00a01.6<\/p>\n
2021:\u00a01.68<\/p>\n
2022:\u00a01.3<\/p>\n
2023:\u00a01.14<\/p>\n
2024:\u00a01.19<\/p>\n
2025:\u00a01.18<\/p>\n
10 states with highest ratio of moves in-to-out, 2025<\/p>\n
South Carolina led moveBuddha’s rankings for the third consecutive year.<\/p>\n
South Carolina:\u00a0199 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Idaho:\u00a0169 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
North Carolina:\u00a0166 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Alaska:\u00a0162 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Maine:\u00a0157 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Tennessee:\u00a0149 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Delaware:\u00a0138 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
South Dakota:\u00a0136 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Arkansas:\u00a0135 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Alabama:\u00a0133 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
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Last year, Alaska saw the largest ratio increase among states. It jumped from its No. 13 ranking with a 1.30 ratio in 2024 to No. 4 with a 1.62 ratio in 2025. According to moveBuddha, this is consistent with trends like widespread remote work opportunities and \u201ca growing emphasis on lifestyle over big-city career ladders.\u201d<\/p>\n
States with lowest ratio of moves in-to-out, 2025<\/p>\n
California once again had the lowest ratio among states, despite improving slightly from its ratio of 0.48 in 2024.<\/p>\n
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California:\u00a062 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
New Jersey:\u00a064 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Connecticut:\u00a067 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
New York: \u00a071 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Maryland:\u00a074 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
District of Columbia:\u00a074 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Nebraska:\u00a075 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Rhode Island:\u00a079 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Massachusetts:\u00a080 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Virginia:\u00a082 in to 100 out<\/p>\n
Washington, D.C. had the biggest drop in rankings last year, dropping 27.36% from a 1.01 ratio to 0.74. The nation\u2019s capital is among a group of \u201cdense, expensive cities\u201d seeing signicant losses in residents. Analysts at moveBuddha attributed the decrease to its loss of around 200,000 jobs in 2025, amid which D.C.’s finances \u201ctook a nosedive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A “Welcome to Texas” sign stands on the side of the road, May 9, 2017 near Dalhart. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1223,12268,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-177894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-austin-texas","12":"tag-georgetown","13":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}