With immigration at the forefront of many political and economic policies, domestic migration is often overlooked by the general public. Domestic migration may occur for many reasons. The causes for each individual range from microeconomic, macroeconomic, political or personal, in no particular order. Wanting to look at just the migration figures without the reasons behind them, I created a visual model providing a graphic representation of migration flows data from state-to-state for people 1-year and older within the United States in 2019. Each year, the United States Census Bureau administers a survey known as the American Community Survey that collects data, including whether individuals over 1-year of age live in the same house and/or state as they did at the beginning of the calendar year. The survey demographic consists of 3.5 million households throughout the country, with data being extrapolated across the true population to give a general representation of people movement that occurred. State-data is measured in both volume and percent-change to normalizes data and provide context for state-to-state migration figures. Map visuals are used for geographic representation and are supplemented with net values and percentages to provide a more granular look into how much each state’s population changed from a domestic perspective.
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