Residents of college towns and military bases are always coming and going.
SmartAsset ranked the nation’s most transient cities, based on the number of people who moved in or out of a city compared to the overall population. In each city on the list, more than half of its population relocated within the last year
Seven of the top 10 cities contained major universities, including top-ranked Provo, Utah (Brigham Young University), Ann Arbor, Mich. (University of Michigan), and Gainesville, Fla. (University of Florida).
Other place in the top 10 were located near military bases, including Lawton, Okla., and Dayton, Ohio.
Seven out of the bottom 10 least transient cities in the country are in California. A few cities in the bottom 10 are dominated by communities with high homeownership rates around the Bay Area. Fremont and Hayward fit this description. Both these cities ranked in the bottom three least transient cities in the country.
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