Follow Me to Tennessee: Tennessee Migration Report
July 16, 2022

KNOXVILLE -- East Tennessee is seeing huge increases in relocation interest in 2022. Chattanooga, Johnson City, Knoxville, Nashville, and Brentwood are experiencing the greatest increases, according to search data from moving company booking website moveBuddha.com. The company just released a new data report dedicated to exploring moving trends across Tennessee. The data shows an increasing interest in moves to the East. Top cities to move to are Chattanooga, Johnson City, Knoxville, Nashville, and Brentwood.

Joe Robison, a data reporter for moveBuddha.com, said, "With a strong job market and the eighth-lowest cost of living in the U.S., more and more people are discovering that there’s more to Tennessee than music and food."

The analysis looked at origin and destination requests for move searches across the nation and state performed on the company's moving cost calculator web page. Data from January 1st to May 4th, 2022 was taken into account for the report. The report also takes a look at historical U.S. Census data to understand which cities in the past decade are the fastest growing and examines the changes in home value across this period.

A full writeup including data on the most popular cities can be found here.

moveBuddha.com is one of the largest moving company booking websites in the United States. The company was founded in 2015 and is best known for its Moving Cost Calculator online instant quoting tool and its Should I Move For Work? decision tool.

Source: moveBuddha.com