Most of Utah’s stats for where kids move are similar to the national average, but there’s one huge difference between Utah and the rest of the nation: migration for minorities.
A new study shows teenagers in the Salt Lake City area are more likely to still be nearby at age 26 than the country's average. Nationally, about two-thirds of 26-year-olds live in the same place they did when they were 16.Back in April, I used some simple census data to answer a key, but pretty broad question: How many Utahns are from Utah?to that is about 61%.
There are quirks, though. Ogden, for example, is in Salt Lake City’s commuting zone , as are Tooele and Park City. But Provo, just 6 miles further away from downtown SLC than Ogden, is in its own CZ — along with the rest of Utah, Juab, and Millard counties. I see what they’re going for, but these definitions are not my favorite.
• There’s more interchange between Utah cities and Phoenix than there is with Denver. I’m not sure I would have expected that.• A majority of 16-year-old Moabites moved elsewhere. You might wonder — well, how about older adults? There’s a little bit more movement about ten years later, but even the 35-year-olds in the sample haven’t moved drastically farther:Fifty-eight percent of 26-year-olds have moved less than 10 miles, a number that decreases to just 48% by the time they’re 35. But only 3% more — 13% compared to 10% — move more than 500 miles away in those nine years.But here’s one huge difference between Utah and the rest of the nation: migration for minorities.
Why is that? There are at least two plausible explanations. One is that, whereas Black teens in other parts of the country have less economic mobility on average, here in Utah, they have more. They might be more likely to be able to go to college, or have the means necessary to move.
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