Forbes has an interesting interactive mapping tool that lets you see how many people are moving in or out of any county or area of the country. I stumbled upon this or rather was directed here by Lani Rosales of Agent Genius magazine.
The site provides a map of the United States and then allows you to click on any county. It will then display a series of black and red lines of various thicknesses. Black means net inward migration to an area and red means net outward migration from an area.
If you hover on any of the highlighted counties, you can see exactly how many people migrated from or to there in connection with the destination county. It's a pretty neat tool for determining where people are going and what areas of the country seem to be desirable (or at least have the jobs!)
Here's some screenshots of areas in Northern Virginia and Washington D.C.:
Alexandria, Virginia
Here's the map for Arlington, Virginia:
Washington D.C.: People are moving here for sure!
Fairfax County migration:
As you can tell from these maps, more people are moving to the D.C. and Northern Virginia area than are moving out.
Compare that with Detroit (located in Wayne County, Michigan): All the red on this map seems to represent the bleeding of the American auto industry!
Play with the Forbes interactive map yourself.
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THAT is a neat map. I have never seen or heard of this before. Thank you for sharing it.
What an interesting tool... thanks a million for sharing!
Wow, that is an interesting and perhaps scary tool. Now off to write the post your article spawned.
Thanks for a great tool Brian, keep an eye out as I my mind is racing about all the different applications for blog use....thanks
Brian Very interesting. I'm sure it will have very wide use in our industry
Thanks for sharing Brian. I had seen these before but had forgotten them. I have them book marked now.
Brian - I had never seen this before and am going to check it out - if I get nothing else done today it is YOUR fault!!! :-)
Wow - thanks for sharing that - pretty interesting to see the patterns of people heading in or out of portions of the country. What's your take on the reason for the amount of incoming folks to DC?
Brian - Great illustration on those maps. DC has always been a transient area but the map hits a lot harder.
Awesome stuff, Brian. I've really enjoyed playing around with this.
Nice post! Thank you for sharing! Wasn't aware of this.
Brian,
Would the last person leaving Wayne County Michigan turn out the lights?
Brian this is an awesome tool - I can't wait to see what our part of the Country looks like. It would also be especially useful for keywords
Thanks for the cool tip...
Thanks for the interesting post today.
Patricia/Seacoast NH
Brian - I just checked out Travis County (Austin). Looks good to me! :) The Detroit map above is sad stuff, huh?
Brian, this is fascinating! I could play with it all day, but I gotta go help some of those movers!
This map is quite telling. Unfortunately, too many red lines out of Massachusetts. Thanks for sharing it Brian.
Another re-blog-worthy post - that's two in one day for me. Thanks for sharing Brian!
great post- love the maps
Brian - I thought it was a pretty neat map when I saw it - I think it was Tim Maitski who posted on it. It raises some interesting thoughts on where to do some marketing if you are interested in relocation.
Jeff
Very cool map, thanks for posting, Brian.
Hi Brian -- Very striking considering I live in Cleveland have known for years that people are moving out, but to see the RED is hard. I used to live in the DC area so that too was no surprise -- great place to be a REALTOR.
Brian,
This was a great find. We've been playing with it all day. The only thing that I think is missing is for the total in/out to be displayed for the county. Any thoughts on where to get that info?
NANCY: People are coming to D.C. because of the great job market (substantially influenced by government jobs). Unemployment in the D.C. area is about 5.9%! Compare that with a national rate of 9.7%+ and some areas much higher.
STEPHEN: I believe that NAR issues Relocation reports every year that have these figures. That would be a nice number to have on these maps. I'd thought that too.
EVERYONE ELSE: Thanks for your comments and I hope you find this tool useful. I didn't discover it first -- as I mention in the post, Lani Rosales at Agent Genius led me there.
Thanks for sharing. Very cool tool!
Thanks for the map
Very cool tool Thanks for sharing and I am reblogging it now as well as sharing to fellow realtors.
Block - Don't be so humble. I attribute some of the movement to that area to your good looks. This is a pretty darn good tool, one of which that can be utilized get an idea of how many prospective homebuyers are coming to your area.
That's a very fun map! Now I know where to move to!
I notice people are moving from high tax to lower tax. Makes sense to me...
Brian I didn't know that there is such a tool that can tell people who are moving in and out of an area. Thanks for sharing Brian and congratulations on the Gold Star. Great post.
Haha. I'm in the Detroit suburbs. Yes, it's brutal up here, but I love a challenge. Eventually everyone will be gone and I can have the state to myself.
Now that is AWESOME!!!! Love the results for our area here in Texas! pippa
Wow, great find, thanks to Lani.
I will go check our my own area.
What a cool tool Brian! Thanks for the info I'm off to check out what they say about the Triangle. NAR does have that relo report - and we get some info from our reports on TMLS - I'm looking forward to comparing the info!
Brian, very cool, thanks for sharing this, as my fellow NC pals have said I can't wait to see where they're coming from.
I looked at the map earlier this morning, but it's from 2008 isn't it?
This is neat. I want to check out Southern Maryland. Thanks for the tip!