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Map: Where Do the Most People from Out of State Live in and Around Georgetown?

The map below shows a snapshot of the percentage of people originally from another state across your town.

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The map above shows a snapshot of the percentage of people originally from another state across your town.

Nationally, the rate of people moving to another state increased to 12.0 percent in 2012 from a record low of 11.6 percent in 2011. Those numbers might go up as a recent survey shows one in three Americans are willing to move, hoping of find a better job market or a lower cost of living than where they are now.

But on a neighborhood level, the results are most likely from unique local circumstances: new housing developments, big employers bringing workers in from out of state, or something else.

The data in this map are from the United States Census Bureau's 2011 American Community Survey. These values are an estimate for 2011 taking into account 60 months of collected data. You can learn more about the survey here.

Using your cursor, you can hover over any census tract – the geographic region defined by the U.S. Census – and see in the box in the upper right hand corner of the map the percentage of people originally from another state.

What do you think explains the differences in the percentage of people from another state across town? Tell us in a comment or a blog post.


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