Nearly one-third of Americans recently cited climate change as a key reason for their move in 2022, according to a July 4 report from Forbes based on a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults. An additional 34 percent cited better weather as a driver.
COVID-19 also played into patients’ decisions to relocate in 2022. Thirty-six percent of respondents said that COVID-19 was “the main reason” they moved to a particular destination in the last two years.
An additional 37 percent said it had a high impact, while 16 percent said it had a moderate impact, 3 percent said it had a low impact and 8 percent said it had no impact.
Movers between the ages of 26 and 41 were most likely to cite climate change as a reason for relocation (35 percent), compared to 30 percent of those between 18 and 25, 25 percent of those between 52 and 57, 9 percent of those between 58 and 76 and 32 percent of those above 77.
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