Justin Fox, Columnist

Americans Still Move, Just Not Enough

Expensive housing in growth markets shuts out newcomers.

November 17, 2015 at 6:16 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

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We don’t move as often as we used to. The percentage of U.S. residents who changed addresses in the previous year has been on a long, mostly steady decline.

The great majority of these moves are within the same county, so it’s worth breaking out the moves that aren’t so close to home: