Where and Why Americans Are Moving in 2025
CONWAY, SOUTH CAROLINA, JUL 23 – Conway attracts movers seeking affordable homes and space with four times more inbound interest than outbound, reflecting a wider Southern migration trend in 2025, MoveBuddha data shows.
- MoveBuddha released its 2025 Moving Trends Report analyzing over 55,000 searches to identify top U.S. relocation destinations so far in 2025.
- The report notes that affordability challenges and rising costs in large cities like California drive many to seek smaller or less congested locations.
- Texas, Florida, and South Carolina attracted substantial net migration, with Conway, SC, becoming the most popular destination for domestic movers in early 2025.
- California lost 238,575 residents nationally while Florida gained 467,347 and Texas added 562,941, reflecting tax benefits and job growth especially in Texas's tech sector.
- This relocation trend suggests continued population growth in Southern states in 2025 and increasing demand for smaller, affordable communities over saturated big cities.
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Where and why Americans are moving in 2025
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