REVEALED: The states Americans are moving to in droves to cash in on lower cost of living
Americans are fleeing to southern states, lured in by the low cost of living and absence of a state income tax, census data revealed.
An estimated 611,942 people moved from their home states to Texas and approximately 636,933 moved to Florida from 2022 to 2023, according to the data released in October.
California lost the most residents to Texas, with an estimated 93,970 people relocating to the Lone Star State.
Former Golden State residents said they were motivated to relocate for affordable housing, cheaper living costs and to cut their tax bills.
‘It was about doing something completely different. We’ve experienced city life and wanted to embrace country living and own some land,’ Michelle Clifford, who moved her family from California to Texas last year, told Business Insider.
An estimated 611,942 people moved from their home states to Texas from 2022 to 2023. Pictured: Austin, Texas
Approximately 636,933 moved to Florida from 2022 to 2023. Pictured: Miami, Florida
‘Over time, our priorities changed. We wanted to slow down and buy a house, but it wasn’t realistic for us in California.’
Approximately 50,513 people from Florida moved to Texas, 29,743 from Oklahoma and 29,610 from New York.
The fact that Texas and Florida don’t levy income taxes on their citizens is a major pulling factor from California and New York, both of which have top marginal rates over 10 percent.
The cost of housing has driven many Americans to move to Texas and Florida where they feel they can afford to purchase a home.
The typical home price in California ($791,000) and New York ($459,000) is much higher than in Texas ($303,000) and Florida ($415,000), according to Zillow.
Jillian Lovato and her wife, Jamie, had a good life in Orange County, but felt they needed to leave the state in order to achieve their dream of becoming homeowners.
‘My wife Jamie and I knew we wouldn’t be able to buy the home we wanted in California,’ Jillian told Realtor.com.
Michelle Clifford (center right), who moved her family from California to Texas last year, said she moved to the Lone Star State to buy a house
Many are fleeing to the Lone Star State in search of jobs where massive companies like Tesla and Samsung have been setting up shop. Pictured: Celina, Texas
Many are fleeing to the Lone Star State in search of jobs where massive companies like Tesla and Samsung have been setting up shop.
Hundreds of California cops are fleeing to Texas to escape ‘soft-on-crime’ policies they say have made their jobs ‘pointless’, DailyMail.com revealed.
Evan Leona, 38, who ditched his job as a detective in a multi-agency gang unit in Fresno, California, to work for Denton Police in Texas, in 2022, said he had met ‘more than a hundred officers’ in the Dallas / Fort Worth area who had fled California.
‘There are five officers who have come from various agencies in California on my shift alone in Denton,’ he told DailyMail.com. ‘The justice system just works a lot better here.’
Millions of Americans flocked to Florida for sunny weather and low taxes for years, but some experts said that could change as the Sunshine States gets hit with natural disasters and soaring insurance premiums.