The latest Census migration data tell a clear and consistent story: people are voting with their feet.
In King County, Washington’s largest population center and economic hub, domestic migration has been negative for years. Between 2023 and 2024 alone, the county lost 12,501 residents to other parts of the United States. The following year, another 9,079 left. Since 2020, the cumulative loss has reached more than 95,000 people.
This is not a one-year anomaly. It is a sustained pattern…