"For 2025, the three van companies found that, on average, 44% of their California interstate relocations were arrivals of new residents. And while that's the fourth-lowest inbound share in the past 22 years, it also marked a rare improvement. Last year's outflow was a bump up from 2024, when 41% of California van moves were inbound the second-lowest rate over these 22 years."
"Last year, California van outflow declined across all three companies compared to 2024, marking only the third time in 14 years that these movers experienced such synchronized slips. Yet each company's inflows are near record lows. Atlas had 46% inbound moves to California last year its fifth-lowest since 2004. United saw 42% inbound its third-lowest. Allied was at 43% its eighth-lowest."
"Looking back over two decades, the pandemic appears to have been a turning point for van movements in California. From 2004 through 2019, California van moves averaged 49% inbound relocations. This includes the 2008-2014 period, when the Great Recession's economic turmoil saw van moves into California exceed van moves out of the state. Since coronavirus upended the economy, though, arrivals averaged just 42% of California relocations by vans."
Annual migration data from Allied, Atlas and United dating to 2004 show that 44% of California interstate van relocations were inbound in 2025, up from 41% in 2024. The 2025 inbound share ranks as the fourth-lowest in 22 years and remains below the long-run average of 47% and the 52% peak in 2014. All three moving companies reported year-over-year declines in outflow compared to 2024, even as each firm's inbound share sits near historical lows. Pre-pandemic inbound rates averaged 49% (2004–2019) and fell to a 42% average after the coronavirus disruption.
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