It’s been common knowledge for the past five years that Tennessee is one of top states in the country where people relocate.
But what about Chattanooga specifically? Are they coming here, and if they are, where are they coming from? And those who choose to leave the Scenic City — where are they going?
(IN THE NEWS: Report: Chattanooga among top-searched cities for relocating)
The Center for Regional Economic Research at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Gary W. Rollins College of Business decided to find out.
For the five-year period of 2021 through 2025, 86,000 people moved into the city’s six-county Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and 69,000 moved out, resulting in net migration of 17,000, according to the center’s study.