A national survey by Mayflower Transit, one of the nation's largest moving companies, has ranked New Jersey as the second-highest "outbound" state in America. In other words, the parade of moving vans leaving New Jersey far outnumbers the ones rolling in.
Survey: More Jerseyans Leaving Than Arriving
Maybe Its Time To Rethink New Jersey's Slogan Again
Friday, September 29, 2006
- By Sam Ali
Star-Ledger Staff
Maybe its time to rethink New Jersey's slogan again.
Based on the rising number of residents departing the Garden State, perhaps the state's new motto should just read, "Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out."
A national survey by Mayflower Transit, one of the nation's largest moving companies, has ranked New Jersey as the second-highest "outbound" state in America. In other words, the parade of moving vans leaving New Jersey far outnumbers the ones rolling in.
The statistics are among the findings of Mayflower's annual Customer Relocation Study that tracks where its customers are moved from and the most popular destinations.
Mayflower said in the first eight months of this year, it helped move 1,788 households out of New Jersey and only 1,060 households in. That means 62 percent of the firm's New Jersey-related traffic is outbound.
Only North Dakota fared worse than New Jersey in the survey.
But other big losers on the list included New York, Nebraska and Michigan, with more than 60 percent of moves coming out of each of these states.
The pursuit of a paycheck was behind nearly half of Mayflower's relocations this year, said Jennifer Bonham, a spokeswoman for Mayflower. More than 45 percent of those who moved did so because of a new job (33.8 percent) or a company transfer (12 percent).
Retirement (31.8 percent) was the second most-common reason cited for the exodus.
And where are all these people going?
In the state popularity contest, South Carolina, District of Columbia (D.C.), Delaware, North Carolina, Montana, and Kentucky topped the list, with 60 percent or more of moves going into each of these states.
The survey supports the findings of a study released this past summer by Princeton University's Policy Research Institute showing the number of departures to other states exceeded arrivals into New Jersey by 56,989 residents last year. All told, the total number of people New Jersey has lost to other states since the year 2000 comes to 194,901 -- the equivalent of having the entire citizenry of Paterson and New Brunswick pack up and move to another state, the study found.
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