Migrations and Diasporas of New York

A fascinating NYT post describes our migration patterns to and fro each state.

The migration data is based on Census data, particularly ipums, which was used to compare the state of residence versus the state of birth of a representative sample of Census forms. According to information aesthetics, the visualization technique used in this post "resembles that of organically shaped, stacked area graphs, also coined as stream graphs or ThemeRiver.

For a glimpse, here is are two visuals on the migration patterns in NY.

MIGRATION INTO NEW YORK (NYT):

The image of New York as a beacon that attracts all is definitely true for immigrants, but for people born in the United States, the picture is more complicated. With the recent growth in immigration, the percentage of foreign-born residents in New York is approaching Ellis Island days. But domestically, one of the less-noticed trends is the decline in population of blacks born in other states. Since 1980, the population of Southern-born blacks has declined by more than 350,000. You can also see in the "U.S. Other" category the impact of migration from Puerto Rico, which was particularly large in the post-war years.

DIASPORA OUT OF NEW YORK (NYT):

Of the 20 million New Yorkers alive today, nearly one in six are now in the South, an idea that would have been almost unthinkable 50 years ago. Florida is still the main attraction, followed by New Jersey. But in terms of growth, since 1980 the number of New Yorkers living in South Carolina increased by about as much as the number living across the Hudson River. As our colleague Nate Cohn puts it, one of the state's leading exports is its people.