New Estimates of Migration Expectancy in the United States

Migration rates by single years of age are used to estimate the number of years with moves an individual in the United States can anticipate in his lifetime. By age 18 a person can expect to have experienced just over one-fourth of his lifetime residential mobility; from age 18 through age 25 he can expect to experience almost 24 percent; and he can expect to experience one-half of his lifetime residential mobility shortly after his twenty-sixth birthday. These calculations were prepared according to type of move (within and between counties and states) and by race.