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Mobility of Local
Population
Just how often are residents of . Rappahannock County likely to pick up and move to another address? How many of them have been living in the same house for more than five years?
According to the latest figures on the mobility or Jie population, from governmental and otSsc. sources, nearly one person oat of every five in the United States is living in a different house than he occupied five years ago.
As for local families, they are less likely to pull up stakes and move than are people in most parts of the country.
Data gathered over the years by the Department of Commerce shows that the proportion of movers in any given area remains quite steady, year after year. The most recent figures covering Rappahannock County show that some 1,656 local residents changed their addresses at least once in a period of five years.
Included in this total were 1,051 who merely moved to other locations within the county and 605 . who came from outside the county to make their homes in the local area.
Some, on the other hand, moved to other sections of the country, i How many is not known, pending i the 1970 census data on mobility, > expected to be released toward the i end of 1971. r What the figures show, in - essence, is that 34 out of every 10C » people in Rappahannock County, v over the age of five, were living in s different houses than they had f occupied five years before. f The 34 percent of movers was >o*o»o»o*o*o*e»o^«o*o«o*o*o»o>a
91.7%