U-Haul tracks and reports one-way truck rentals to and from each state. Apparently their belief is that moves involving a rental trailer are insignificant demographically, and perhaps they are correct.
U-Haul calculates the number of truck arrivals minus the number of departures and comes up with a value that ranges from substantially positive to substantially negative. These are then ranked from most positive to most negative.
Here are the 49 states to which one can drive, plus the District of Columbia, ranked by this criteria; U-Haul includes Alaska whereas United Van Lines does not. The number in parentheses shows the state's ranking last year.
- Tennessee (12)
- Texas (2)
- Florida (1)
- Ohio (7)
- Arizona (20)
- Colorado (42)
- Missouri (13)
- Nevada (24)
- North Carolina (3)
- Georgia (16)
- Arkansas (23)
- Indiana (9)
- Wisconsin (41)
- Oklahoma (14)
- South Carolina (4)
- West Virginia (22)
- Utah (8)
- Kentucky (37)
- Montana (26)
- Minnesota (15)
- Kansas (18)
- Alabama (6)
- New Hampshire (31)
- Iowa (30)
- South Dakota (28)
- Vermont (10)
- Delaware (21)
- Virginia (39)
- Maine (33)
- Idaho (11)
- Mississippi (25)
- Nebraska (19)
- Wyoming (27)
- Alaska (17)
- Rhode Island (35)
- Washington (5)
- North Dakota (32)
- Washington, D.C. (38)
- New Mexico (36)
- Michigan (48)
- Pennsylvania (46)
- New York (43)
- Connecticut (34)
- Louisiana (40)
- Oregon (29)
- Maryland (45)
- Massachusetts (47)
- New Jersey (44)
- Illinois (50)
- California (49)
