Elderly Net Migration

1 June 1980

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Research on Aging

Vol. 2 (2) , 191-204
https://doi.org/10.1177/016402758022008

Abstract

Population redistribution due to migration within the United States favored metropolitan areas until about 1970; nonmetropolitan areas thereafter. This article traces changes which have affected that pattern and the role of the older population over 65 in those changes. The general finding is one of decreasing levels of net migration in metropolitan areas and increasing levels in nonmetropolitan areas across the 1950-1975 period for both age groups. Elderly migrants were the harbingers of the nonmetropolitan turnaround, since for the older age group nonmetropolitan migration rates are positive and exceed metropolitan rates in the 1960s as well as the 1970s.

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The New Pattern of Nonmetropolitan Population Change
Published by Elsevier ,1978