Where are Asheville Metro’s New Residents Coming From?
Johnson Price Sprinkle PA investigates where Asheville metro’s new residents are coming from due to its unique net population growth. JPS is a sixty-year-old accounting firm serving Western North Carolina with dedicated CPAs equipping small-to-middle-market businesses with tax, business consulting, audit, and technology services.
The four-county Asheville metro (Buncombe, Henderson, Haywood and Madison) is unique because its net population growth is driven solely from people moving in from somewhere else. Over the last five years, virtually all of the net change in population in the Asheville metro was from in-migration. Births among current residents were less than deaths. In total then, existing residents didn’t add any net new population.
Asking where Asheville metro’s new residents are coming from is an important question since these new residents provide insights into the metro’s future. The U.S. Census Bureau tracks migration flows; where people move to and from where. The most recent data covers migration flows from 2010 to 2014.
Among states, North Carolina is clearly the top supplier of new residents to the metro (see chart below). Among all sources, the state supplied 37 percent of Asheville metro’s new residents between 2010 and 2014. Florida ranks a distant second, providing 2,719 new residents, about 11 percent of the total.
Top States Supplying Asheville Metro’s New Residents
Unsurprisingly, the top four metros supplying new residents to Asheville’s metropolitan area are all in North Carolina (see map and chart below). At 1,389 persons, the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia metro provided the most new residents to Asheville’s metro of any metropolitan. Greensboro-High Point followed closely at 1,099. Raleigh and Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton ranked third and fourth, respectively. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell is the top metro outside of the state and the source of 519 new residents to Asheville’s metropolitan.
Metros Supplying Asheville Metropolitan Area’s New Residents
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010-2014
Top Metros Supplying Asheville Metropolitan Area’s New Residents
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010-2014
The U.S. Census Bureau also tracks new residents who come from outside the nation. The Bureau aggregates the individual country numbers into seven foreign regions. Asia supplied the most new residents to Asheville’s metro, flowed closely by Europe (see chart below).
Foreign Areas Supplying Asheville’s New Residents
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010-2014
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010-2014So where are Asheville metro’s new residents coming from? Clearly, among states and metros, North Carolina is the leading source of new residents. Yet more than half of all new residents come from an extremely broad variety of locations; helping to contribute to Asheville metro’s diverse and changing future.
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