More people are moving to Alabama, U-Haul says, in national ranking
1 Jan 2025
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Alabama is one of several southern states seeing more people moving in, according to transportation company U-Haul.
The company’s annual Growth Index is out, and Alabama placed 16th among the states, rising six spots from its 2023 ranking. The Yellowhammer State place behind Georgia and just ahead of Virginia.
U-Haul uses its one-way consumer transactions as a means of tracking where people are moving in the U.S. and at what rate. It looks at net gain or loss of one-way equipment from customer transactions in a calendar year. The index is compiled from more than 2.5 million one-way U-Haul truck, trailer and U-Box portable moving container transactions in the U.S. and Canada.
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