10 US cities where everyone wants to live right now
According to new data compiled by realtor.com, the Texas capital is seeing an influx of newcomers from other cities, and the population is booming, making it the No. 1 most popular place to live in the US right now.
If you've been keeping an eye on a number of other top cities lists, it should come as no surprise that so many people want to move to Austin - the city ranks No. 3 on the best cities for new grads to start their career list, and No. 1 on US News' overall best places in America to live list.
As Business Insider previously reported, the city that wants to "keep it weird" is beloved for its live music scene and is host to some of the country's biggest music and culture festivals, including South by Southwest and Austin City Limits. The city was also nicknamed "Silicon Hills" in the 90s for its status as "among the top areas for venture capital investment in the country."
Of course, plenty of other cities top people's "must-move-to" lists. To figure out which cities Americans are flocking to, realtor.com looked at three data sources:
- Census Bureau migration data from 2010 to 2014. The "migration ratio" is the ratio of people moving into a metro (from another metro) versus people leaving the metro (to another metro).
- Search traffic on realtor.com. The "views ratio" is the ratio of Realtor.com views to a metro versus views from that metro elsewhere between April 2016 and April 2017.
- Population growth estimates from 2015 to 2017. The "growth rate" is the percentage Nielsen estimates the population in a metro has grown based on census data.