PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Despite Arizona’s scalding hot temperatures and the number of First Alert Weather days, the state remains a destination for people looking to move.
According to U.S. News and World Report, which analyzed search results for moving companies, they found West Des Moines, Iowa, to Phoenix, Arizona, ranked 3rd in the results, only behind Los Angeles to New York City and vice versa.
The latest census data from 2023 found that 256,000 people moved to Arizona, with migrators mainly coming from California, Texas, Colorado, Oregon and Washington state.
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Arizona’s Family spoke to Fletcher Wilcox, a real estate advisor for Russ Lyon’s Sotheby’s International Realty, about why people are coming to Arizona.
“Companies are looking for STEM graduates and ASU is pumping them out like crazy,” he said. “People out of town are moving here looking at the medical field, the hospitality field, electric cars and the new semiconductor facility at TSMC, we used to be a housing market, but now we are pretty diverse.”
Wilcox said the upward trend is expected to continue, bringing people to the outskirts of the Valley in far-west and far-east cities, where new housing developments are located.
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