Among the 700,000 adults moving to the United States from abroad between 1992 and 1993, about 15 percent had graduate or professional college degrees, compared to only 7 percent of the general U.S. population, according to a report released today by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau. Included in this category are U.S. citizens returning from foreign countries, including members of the military and their dependents. However, when movers from abroad are taken into account, metro areas had a net gain of 889,000 persons due to migration. Within metropolitan areas, suburbs gained 2.2 million movers between 1992 and 1993, while central cities lost 2.5 million persons due to migration.
Young adults have the highest rates of moving.
In contrast, only one in ten persons in owner-occupied housing units had moved in the same period. This is the first statistically significant net change for the Midwest since the region had a run of net losses during the early 1980s. As in all surveys, the data in this report are subject to sampling variability and other sources of error.