News release: “The percentage of people who changed residences between 2010 and 2011 – 11.6 percent – was the lowest recorded rate since the Current Population Survey began collecting statistics on the movement of people in the United States in 1948, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. The rate, which was 20.2 percent in 1985, declined to a then-record low of 11.9 percent in 2008 before rising to 12.5 percent in 2009. The 2010 rate was not statistically different than the 2009 rate.

• This information comes from Geographical Mobility: 2011, a collection of national- and regional-level tables from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. The tables shed light on movement of people within the United States from one location to another during the year prior to the survey. These tables were part of four migration-related data products released today, which also included:
• Geographical Mobility: 2008 to 2009, a report with analysis of various geographic mobility topics. It contains national- and state-level data from the 2009 Current Population Survey and American Community Survey.
• 2010 American Community Survey state-to-state migration flow tables.
• Lifetime Mobility in the United States: 2010, a 2010 American Community Survey brief on people who live in the state of their birth.