{"id":7179,"date":"2012-04-02T12:01:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=7179"},"modified":"2012-04-02T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:04:22","slug":"part-4-which-nh-counties-won-new-residents-and-lost-old-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/04\/02\/part-4-which-nh-counties-won-new-residents-and-lost-old-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 4: Which NH Counties Won New Residents (And Lost Old Ones)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As in our previous posts, we're continuing with a light bit of boxing imagery for entertainment purposes<\/p><\/div>\n

One of our most popular sets of posts has been an occasional series with a different take on migration into–and out of–New Hampshire.\u00a0 Using IRS data, Jon Bruner of Forbes <\/em>traced where people in every county in the country were moving to\u2013and from\u2013between 2005 and\u00a02009.\u00a0 Then, he generated a really cool map <\/a>that allows you to click on counties and see how far-flung their competitors for residents actually are.<\/p>\n

The question of migration is important for a number of reasons.\u00a0 The most obvious one, of course, is tax base.\u00a0 No government wants to lose revenue to somewhere else.<\/p>\n

All things considered,\u00a0New Hampshire\u2019s economy<\/a> is doing reasonably well now.\u00a0 But looking decades into the future, a larger-than-normal question mark looms.\u00a0 New England as a whole is facing a shortage of young people.\u00a0 And those young people aren’t having a lot of kids.\u00a0 While Bruner’s map doesn’t list migration by age, we can draw some reasonably solid conclusions thanks to other demographic info to fill in some blanks.<\/p>\n

In our final post on this theme, we take a look Merrimack Valley migration.<\/p>\n

Just like before, we\u2019ve boiled everything down to a set of key bullet points, to make it understandable.\u00a0 Except for the \u201cOverarching Story\u201d portion, which covers all years, we\u2019re looking at the 2009 figures.*\u00a0 And we\u2019ve framed the narrative in terms of \u201cwins\u201d and \u201closses,\u201d to make it entertaining.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note, however, that since we\u2019re dealing with raw numbers, sometimes the difference between a \u201cwin\u201d and a \u201closs\u201d for counties can be a handful of residents\u2026or even just one.\u00a0 (So in monetary terms, we\u2019re not dealing with net figures\u2026only gross.)<\/p>\n

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