"While having someone else move your stuff by van is usually an option for upper-crust Americans changing home states, this metric is worth following because it tends to parallel California's competition for residents with other states. For 2025, the three van companies found that, on average, 44% of their California interstate relocations were arrivals of new residents. And while that's the fourth-lowest inbound share in the past 22 years, it also marked a rare improvement."
"Looking back over two decades, the pandemic appears to have been a turning point for van movements in California. From 2004 through 2019, California van moves averaged 49% inbound relocations. This includes the 2008-2014 period, when the Great Recession's economic turmoil saw van moves into California exceed van moves out of the state. Since coronavirus upended the economy, though, arrivals averaged just 42% of California relocations by vans."
Annual migration data from three major moving-van providers (Allied, Atlas and United) show that 44% of California interstate van relocations were inbound in 2025, a modest improvement from 41% in 2024. The 2025 inbound share remains below the 47% average since 2004 and far below the 52% peak in 2014; the all-time low was 41% in 2023. All three companies experienced declines in outflow compared with 2024, with Atlas at 46% inbound, United at 42%, and Allied at 43%. Van-move patterns shifted after the pandemic: 2004–2019 averaged 49% inbound, while post-coronavirus years averaged about 42% inbound.
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