Domestic Migration

Migration, the movement of people from one location to another, is a key part in population change and provides useful insights that local governments utilize in the planning and development of areas; such as housing supply and demand, job markets, economic health, and resource allocations among others. Domestic migration is defined as the movement of a population within a country. There are two components: in-migrants, people moving into an area, and out-migrants, people moving out of an area. Although these movements occur in response to individual economic, lifestyle and lifecycle choices, in aggregate they show patterns of domestic migration that can change over time.