Gen Xers are leaving behind big cities like New York.Getty; Rebecca Zisser/BIGen Xers are moving to retirement hot spots in Florida and Texas.Meanwhile, they're leaving behind big coastal cities in New York and California.Lower interest rates, remote work, and a strong economy might be driving Gen X migration patterns.Gen Xers are living like they're 20 years older — or at least moving to the favored locales of their retiree counterparts.An exclusive analysis of Census data for BI from the University of Virginia demographer Hamilton Lombard reveals the areas in the US that Gen Xers have left behind and where they went.!function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;rBetween 2020 and 2023, counties in Florida and Texas, many of which are retirement havens, experienced the largest increases in their Gen X populations — defined as those who were between 45 and 54 years old in 2023 — per the analysis.The analysis also found that the population of that demographic in "retirement destination" counties rose by 5.1% between 2020 and 2023, over three times as fast as the country's 1.6% growth rate in the same period.
Forget New York: Gen X Is Following Boomers To Retirement-friendly Places Like Florida
insider@insider.com (Juliana Kaplan,Noah Sheidlower), Business Insider
Sat, 01/11/2025 - 2:10am
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