Connecticut a Top Location for Leaving: Moving Company

Connecticut is one of the top states where people are leaving and heading elsewhere, according to findings from United Moving Company.

The movers annually review where customers packed up and left from, and where they are heading, to assess market trends.

During 2015, Connecticut was among the top 5 states where people were leaving, the survey says.

Here are the states with the most people moving out, according to United:

1. New Jersey
2. New York
3. Illinois
4. Connecticut
5. Ohio
6. Kansas
7. Massachusetts
8. West Virginia
9. Mississippi
10. Maryland

The trend over the last year was for people to head west, United reported.

So why are people leaving Connecticut? According to a brief put together by the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, the number of people leaving Connecticut each year increased from 12,000 between 1993 and 2010 to 13,500 between 2011 and 2013. According to the brief, the average income per person leaving the state climbed to $142,000.

The increase in the “outmigration” as the brief calls it is due to a $2.5 billion tax increase in 2011, which included hikes on personal income taxes, corporate taxes and estate taxes.

Read the full brief here.

These were the top spots people were moving to, according to the survey:

1. Oregon
2. South Carolina
3. Vermont
4. Idaho
5. North Carolina
6. Florida
7. Nevada
8. District of Columbia
9. Texas
10. Washington

This is the 39th year the company has surveyed its customers to see where they were moving, and it recently began asking why.

“This year’s data reflects longer-term trends of people moving to the Pacific West, where cities such as Portland and Seattle are seeing the combination of a boom in the technology and creative marketing industry, as well as a growing ‘want’ for outdoor activity and green space,” Michael Stoll, economist, professor and chair of the Department of Public Policy at the UCLA, said in a statement with the survey findings.

“The aging Boomer population is driving relocation from the Northeast and Midwest to the West and South, as more and more people retire to warmer regions,” Stoll said.

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