In a dramatic population shift, Dallas and Fort Worth are among the top Texas cities attracting nearly 100,000 Californians who packed up and moved in just a single year, according to a new report from self-storage marketplace StorageCafe.
StorageCafe analyzed 2023 U.S. Census data to rank the 30 most popular moving routes from California to Texas, based on county-level move-ins. An average of about 262 people make their way from California to the Lone Star state every day — enough to repopulate an entire city like Santa Barbara, according to the list.
Methodology studied in the list included housing costs, demographics, income, education, remote work, Zillow home price trends, Yardi Matrix storage data and February 2025 unemployment rates…