【World Property Journal】9 Million People Relocated in the U.S. Since COVID Pandemic Began Last March

According the National Association of Realtors senior economist and research director Nadia Evangelou; driven by the U.S. Coronavirus outbreak starting in March of 2020, one in three adults substituted some or all of their typical in-person work for telework compared to 1 in 20 adults that worked remotely before the pandemic. With teleworking at record high levels, people also decide to move for various reasons. Some of them seek out bigger houses with bigger yards for their kids to play in and office space for them to work. Others seek more affordable homes in less dense places away from large city centers since they can telework.

While teleworking may continue long after the pandemic, it is obvious that far fewer people are moving for job-related reasons during the pandemic than they used to do pre-pandemic.

To better understand the COVID-19 impact on U.S. mobility, NAR's research team collected United States Postal Service change-of-address data from March to October 2020 for each county across the United States. Since people who want to forward their mail from their old home to new residences file a change of address request to the USPS, this dataset serves as a good proxy on how many people moved since the beginning of the pandemic.
 

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