Some do it for the cost of living. Others do it for comfort, to be closer to loved ones, or for that new job.
Whatever the reason, Americans were still on the move in 2021, the first full year lived during the COVID-19 pandemic, several reports show.
Pew Research says 26.5 million people moved from one home in the U.S. to another between March 2020 and March 2021–about 800,000 fewer moves than in the same time span between 2019 and 2020 — based on the most current data available from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey.