SC leads population growth despite slow down in relocation boom

(WPDE)– People might be throwing away their moving boxes and staying put after the post-pandemic shock to our country’s migration patterns, but South Carolina still leads population growth in the country.

Research and listing company, ApartmentList.com, is releasing its migration report analyzing moving patterns in 2023.

For the greater Myrtle Beach area, they say people are mostly choosing to move from Charlotte, Raleigh, and Atlanta, followed by New York, Philadelphia, and Boston.

Those patterns are the same as they’ve been in the past few years. but it is happening less often, according to Apartment List.

They report this year, 25.6% of users were looking to move to a new state, and 38.5% were looking to move to another metro in their state.

People might be throwing away their moving boxes and staying put after the post-pandemic shock to our country’s migration patterns, but South Carolina still leads population growth in the country.

Photo: ApartmentList.Com - January 2024 Migration Report

The company explained that’s because we’re approaching four years of the pandemic’s onset, and the “relocation boom” we saw from remote work and preference changes is beginning to settle.

For those still moving, though, South Carolina takes the lead for population growth, at a 1.6% increase, and New York saw the largest decrease, down 1.1% in a year.

The company also listed the top metros attracting out-of-towners and almost half, four out of ten, are cities in the Carolinas.