Apartment renters across the Washington region are more likely than others nationally to be looking to move elsewhere – whether relatively close by or all the way across the country – according to new data.
Apartment List tracks searches by apartment-hunters, and in newly reported data, a healthy percentage (38%, in fact) were looking to move out of the Washington region.
Not, necessarily, too far out: Maryland was the state of choice among nearly two-thirds of those searches, with Baltimore topping all Free State locales at 14.1 percent.
New York City (5.3%) and Richmond (5%) were next on the search list for Washington apartment renters.
Where else were they looking? Locales included Boston (2.7%), Los Angeles (2.3%), Miami (2.2%), Atlanta (2%), Seattle (2%), Chicago (2%), Dallas (1.8%), San Francisco (1.7%), Houston (1.3%), Tampa (1.1%) and Orlando (1.1%).
“Some of this reshuffling is undoubtedly attributable to the long-term adoption of remote work, which offers newfound flexibility to a segment of the workforce that also earns relatively high wages,” Apartment List analysts said. “Remote workers moved at higher rates in the past, and recent data suggest they will continue to do so in the near future.”
And never fear; it’s not like all those vacated apartments are going to be empty. A robust number of apartment-dwellers from outside the Washington region are looking to move in, the Apartment List data showed.
Nationally, the two states with the highest flight during the pandemic era have been California and New York, both of which saw not-insubstantial declines in total population.
And where were residents going?
• Californians most often were headed to Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Washington and Florida.
• New Yorkers were off to Florida, California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
Another Apartment List survey found that about 12 to 14 percent of workers questioned late last year said they were planning to relocate to another city in 2023. Interestingly, the rates were relatively the same whether the respondents were working in offices, remotely or had a hybrid arrangement.
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