Monday, December 10, 2012

Mobility Rate Inches Up

After reaching a record low in 2010-11, the nation's geographic mobility rate inched up slightly in 2011-12, according to the Census Bureau. The percentage of Americans aged 1 or older who lived in a different house in March 2012 than in March 2011 rose to 12.0 percent, up from the all-time low of 11.6 percent a year earlier. Here is the annual mobility rate since 2000...

2011-12: 12.0%
2010-11: 11.6%
2009-10: 12.5%
2008-09: 12.5%
2007-08: 11.9%
2006-07: 13.2%
2005-06: 13.7%
2004-05: 13.9%
2003-04: 13.7%
2002-03: 14.2%
2001-02: 14.8%
2000-01: 14.2%

Source: Census Bureau, Geographic Mobility: 2011 to 2012

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