The top 9 cities tech talent is moving to — and 9 places they're leaving

• New York, Austin, and LA were the top cities tech talent moved to between 2022 and 2023, a SignalFire report found.
• San Francisco, Seattle, and Boston lost the greatest share of relocating tech workers.

Tech talent making moves aren't just ending up in Austin and Miami.

New York was the city that gained the biggest share of relocating tech talent between 2022 and 2023, a recent report by SignalFire found.
While the San Francisco Bay Area is still the center of the tech world, a migration of tech employees out of California has continued since the rise in remote work.

Among tech workers who relocated last year, the most common states for them to end up included New York, Texas, California, and Florida, according to the SignalFire report.

The top nine cities tech workers relocated to were:

• New York City, New York
  
• Austin, Texas
  
• Los Angeles, California
  
• Denver, Colorado
  
• San Diego, California
  
• Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  
• Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
  
• Nashville, Tennessee
  
• Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida
  

New York had a net gain in tech talent of about 3.5%, while Austin had a gain of about 1.5%. In third was Los Angeles, with a net gain of around 0.5%

Meanwhile, the nine cities tech workers moved away from were:

• San Francisco, California
  
• Seattle, Washington
  
• Boston, Massachusetts
  
• Phoenix, Arizona
  
• Washington, DC
  
• Sacramento, California
  
• Portland, Oregon
  
• Detroit, Michigan
  
• Provo, Utah
  

San Francisco saw a net loss in tech talent of over 3.5%, while Seattle lost just under 2.5%, and Boston lost more than 0.5 percent.

The report found that 15% of all tech employees who moved between 2022 and 2023 went to New York.

But New York managed to draw the biggest share of tech workers who moved between 2022 and 2023 despite its high housing prices and cost of living.

The trend of people moving out of San Francisco and California, generally, to cities in Texas and Florida, has been partially explained by a desire to escape high costs of living. But New York City managed to draw the biggest share of tech workers who moved last year despite its high housing prices and cost of living.

Several of the cities attracting tech workers also happen to be "blue island" cities located in red states, such as Austin, Nashville, Tampa, and Miami.

In addition to the cities in the report, there are also smaller cities across the US that have growing tech scenes, including places in Utah, Idaho, and Arkansas.

Correction: May 1, 2024 — An earlier version of this story misstated the time period the SignalFire report measured. It was between 2022 and 2023, not last year.