TEXAS — For the second year in a row, Texas and Florida topped U-Haul’s destination charts for one-way truck customers in 2022. The Carolinas also joined the top destination list this past year.
The moving company credits the pandemic for a great migration toward the southeast and southwest regions of the United States, and notes that the trend has continued into 2022, although the number of DIY moves from 2021 has decreased slightly.
Demand for these moving trucks remains high in California, New York and Illinois, indicating more people are using these U-Hauls to move out of the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast.
Texas ranks first for the fifth time since 2016, and Florida has been a top-three growth state for the last seven years.
“The 2022 trends in migration followed very similar patterns to 2021 with Texas, Florida, the Carolinas and the Southwest continuing to see solid growth,” stated John “J.T.” Taylor, U-Haul International president. “We still have areas with strong demand for one-way rentals. While overall migration in 2021 was record-breaking, we continue to experience significant customer demand to move out of some geographic areas to destinations at the top of our growth list.”
U-Haul measures its growth index by calculating the net gain of one-way U-Haul trucks arriving and departing a state or city that specific calendar year.