Economics
Residents Increasingly Fleeing New York, Los Angeles and Chicago
- One fourth of net gainers in top 100 cities due to immigrants
- Boise, Charleston domestic-to-foreign migration ratio over 10
A pedestrians crosses the Dearborn Street Bridge during a snow storm in Chicago, Illinois.
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Even migration is bigger in Texas. Dallas leads all U.S. cities as the largest net gainer with 246 people arriving daily, according to a Bloomberg analysis of 2017 Census data on migration to the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. In 2014, the crown belonged to Houston with 269 migrants per day.
After Dallas, Sun Belt beacons Phoenix, Tampa, Atlanta and Orlando round out the top five. Seattle, at number six with a gain of 116 people daily, is the only cold-weather destination in the top 10. The daily influx surpassed 100 people in nine cities, while Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles saw an exodus of more than 100 people every day.