According to American Community Survey statistics, 68,847 people moved from Puerto Rico to the U.S and 27,208 moved from the U.S. to Puerto Rico during the year prior to being surveyed.

The Census Bureau included flows from Puerto Rico municipalities to U.S. counties for the first time.The vast majority of Puerto Rico’s municipalities have seen their populations drop over the past several years amid an exodus sparked by the ongoing island recession dating back nearly a decade.

Among the top flows between Puerto Rico and the U.S. were the 1,244 people who moved from Puerto Rico’s capital city San Juan to Orange County, Fla. Some and 251 moved from Orange County to San Juan.

Orange County is included in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metropolitan statistical area is the heart of Central Florida’s large and growing Puerto Rican population hub.

The newly released Census data show that 738 people moved from Bayamón to Orange County and 300 moved from Orange County to Bayamón, which is Puerto Rico’s second-largest city.

Another 316 moved from Miami-Dade County to San Juan and 480 moved from San Juan to Miami-Dade County.

There are nearly 900,000 Puerto Ricans living in Florida, representing a growing political power in the key battleground state.

The data pegged San Juan’s population at just under 390,000.

The number show that 15,213 people moved from San Juan to a different state, while 3,529 moved to the Puerto Rico capital from the states.

San Juan saw 14,048 move in from one of Puerto Rico’s 77 other municipalities. Another 8,380 moved from San Juan to a different municipality.

Movers from abroad totaled 1,884.

Nationally, of the 16.6 million people in the U.S. who lived in a different county one year before, 7.3 million were employed and 1.3 million were unemployed, according to the new migration statistics. A little over 5 percent of the U.S. population lived in a different county one year earlier.

TheCounty-to-County Migration Flows Tables, which use data collected by the American Community Survey between 2008 and 2012, show how many residents move (flow) from one specific county to another during the course of a year.

“These statistics show the work, occupation and employment status of movers at the time they were surveyed,” said Kin Koerber, a demographer with the Census Bureau’s Journey-to-Work and Migration Statistics Branch. “With the new update, we can see movements of occupation groups from one part of the country to another.”

Posted By Blogger to The MJR Report at 9/08/2014 12:06:00 AM