U-Haul, Allied Van Lines Report Moving Trends

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U-Haul, Phoenix, and Allied Van Lines, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., each released reports on recent moving trends.

U-Haul’s report–on the top-growth cities in 2023–deemed the Palm Bay-Melbourne, Fla., market as No. 1. It had the most movers in one-way U-Haul equipment.

In general, Florida is seeing growth, U-Haul reported, with seven markets among the top 25 growth cities.

Rounding out the top 10 are: Ocala, Fla.; Charleston-North Charleston, S.C.; Sarasota-Bradenton, Fla.; Austin; College Station-Bryan, Texas; Charlotte, N.C.; Huntsville, Ala.; Dallas; and Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach, S.C.

U-Haul calculates growth cities by each city’s net gain (or loss) of one-way equipment from customer transactions in a calendar year. The U-Haul Growth Index is compiled from more than 2.5 million one-way U-Haul truck, trailer and U-Box moving container transactions that occur annually across the U.S. and Canada.

Overall, Allied Van Lines–a moving company–reported a decrease in interstate moves in 2023. Year-over-year, 2023 saw 12% fewer interstate moves, following a 20% decrease in 2022.

The top inbound states, Allied said, were South Carolina, Arizona, Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida, with the top inbound cities of Charleston, S.C., Tucson, Ariz., Charlotte, N.C., Nashville, Tenn., and Phoenix.

The top outbound states were Illinois, California, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Washington. The top outbound cities were San Diego, Chicago, Seattle, Detroit and Los Angeles.

Allied used data for all interstate moves that were loaded from Jan. 1, 2016 to Dec. 15, 2023.