{"id":448006,"date":"2026-09-26T01:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448006\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T01:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:48:09","slug":"san-antonio-drew-more-gen-z-movers-in-2024-than-any-other-u-s-city-redfin-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448006\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio drew more Gen Z movers in 2024 than any other U.S. city, Redfin says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Gen Z moved to San Antonio more than any other U.S. city in 2024, according to numbers released by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/press-releases\/san-antonio-is-the-top-destination-for-gen-z-movers-while-millennials-favor-houston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Redfin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">According to the real estate brokerage, 10,678 people in the Gen Z demographic moved to San Antonio, ahead of Washington, D.C., with 8,631, Austin with 8,590, Nashville, Tennessee, with 8,093, and Dallas with 6,944.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The study also showed Gen Z leaving large, more expensive cities such as New York, Minneapolis and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">David MacPherson, the head of the economics department at Trinity University, reviewed the numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cIt surprised me a bit just how big an advantage that San Antonio had during this time period,\u201d McPherson said. \u201cI mean, it outranked even Austin, which typically is associated with attracting Gen Z.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">In a San Antonio Facebook group, people gave a range of reasons for choosing the city: job opportunities, the culture, the military and the warm weather. Overwhelmingly, they mentioned low cost of living and housing, and commenters favored San Antonio over Austin on housing costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">MacPherson said average wages in the U.S. are around $32.50 an hour, compared with $28.50 in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cSo it\u2019s about $4 an hour less, but housing is significantly cheaper,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Along with affordability, McPherson said the draws include the food scene, the success of the Spurs and new developments like the Pearl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Among millennials in 2024, 16,000 people moved to Houston, followed by Dallas, Baltimore, Las Vegas and Atlanta. Studies show millennials were also leaving big cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Read also:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Gen Z moved to San Antonio more than any other U.S. city in 2024, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19879,5815,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-448006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-generation-z","tag-growth","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448006","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=448006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}