The Gavin Newsom Effect: More People are Moving from California U-Haul Reports

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California News:

It’s starting to feel like Groundhog Day. Every nationwide report has bad news for California whether it’s CEOs or U-Haul rentals for moves to other states. As we reported in July, California lost 361,623 residents and $20,915,598,000 in income to Texas.

California made the top of Allied Van Lines Company 2024 Allied US Migration Report unfortunately for outbound migration. We are losing residents to other states, and not replenishing them with inbound migrants.

In U-Haul’s 2025 Midyear Migration Trends report the do-it-yourself moving company says with the summer moving season, “odds are you have seen a U-Haul® truck being unloaded at a home near you. Or perhaps you were the one moving.”

“With nearly half of all residential moves in the U.S. occurring between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends each year, the U-Haul midyear migration trends report answers the question: ‘Where did those new neighbors come from?’”

That’s a good question.

“U-Haul, which is celebrating 80 years of Moving America, looked at its one-way customer transactions from January to July 2025 to determine the leading origins for trucks, trailers and U-Box® moving containers bound for the 35 metro areas with populations greater than 2 million.”

As the Globe has previously reported, the top states Californians were leaving for – as we’ve become accustomed to, Florida and Texas, North and South Carolina and Tennessee.

Here are the top cities where California U-Haul do-it-yourself movers landed:

Austin

Top origin states for arriving U-Haul customers (excluding Texas)

  1. California
  2. Florida
  3. Colorado
  4. Louisiana
  5. Arizona
  6. Oklahoma
  7. Georgia
  8. Illinois
  9. Tennessee
  10. New Mexico

Top origin metro areas for arriving U-Haul customers outside Texas

  1. Denver, CO
  2. Los Angeles, CA
  3. Phoenix, AZ
  4. San Francisco, CA
  5. Atlanta, GA

Dallas

Top origin states for arriving U-Haul customers (excluding Texas)

  1. Oklahoma
  2. Florida
  3. Louisiana
  4. Arkansas
  5. California
  6. Colorado
  7. Georgia
  8. Arizona
  9. Missouri
  10. Tennessee

Top origin metro areas for arriving U-Haul customers outside Texas

  1. Oklahoma City, OK
  2. Atlanta, GA
  3. Phoenix, AZ
  4. Denver, CO
  5. Los Angeles, CA

Denver

Top origin states for arriving U-Haul customers (excluding Colorado)

  1. Texas
  2. Arizona
  3. California
  4. Florida
  5. New Mexico
  6. Utah
  7. Illinois
  8. Missouri
  9. Kansas
  10. Washington

Houston

Top origin states for arriving U-Haul customers (excluding Texas)

  1. Louisiana
  2. Florida
  3. Georgia
  4. California
  5. Oklahoma
  6. Colorado
  7. Mississippi
  8. Tennessee
  9. Arizona
  10. Alabama

Las Vegas

Top origin states for arriving U-Haul customers (excluding Nevada)

  1. California
  2. Arizona
  3. Utah
  4. Texas
  5. Washington
  6. Colorado
  7. Florida
  8. Oregon
  9. New Mexico
  10. Idaho

Top origin metro areas for arriving U-Haul customers outside Nevada

  1. Los Angeles, CA
  2. Phoenix, AZ
  3. Bay Area (San Francisco and San Jose metros), CA
  4. Riverside, CA
  5. Salt Lake City, UT

Minneapolis

Top origin states for arriving U-Haul customers (excluding Minnesota)

  1. Wisconsin
  2. Illinois
  3. Iowa
  4. Texas
  5. North Dakota
  6. Florida
  7. Arizona
  8. Colorado
  9. California
  10. Michigan

Nashville

Top origin states for arriving U-Haul customers (excluding Tennessee)

  1. Florida
  2. Georgia
  3. Texas
  4. Alabama
  5. Kentucky
  6. North Carolina
  7. Ohio
  8. California
  9. Illinois
  10. Indiana

Top origin metro areas for arriving U-Haul customers outside Tennessee

  1. Atlanta, GA
  2. Dallas, TX
  3. Chicago, IL
  4. Los Angeles, CA
  5. Miami, FL

Phoenix

Top origin states for arriving U-Haul customers (excluding Arizona)

  1. California
  2. Texas
  3. Colorado
  4. Nevada
  5. Washington
  6. Utah
  7. New Mexico
  8. Oregon
  9. Illinois
  10. Florida

Top origin metro areas for arriving U-Haul customers outside Arizona

  1. Los Angeles, CA
  2. Las Vegas, NV
  3. Denver, CO
  4. Salt Lake City, UT
  5. Seattle, WA

Portland

Top origin states for arriving U-Haul customers (excluding Oregon)

  1. Washington
  2. California
  3. Arizona
  4. Idaho
  5. Texas
  6. Colorado
  7. Nevada
  8. Utah
  9. Florida
  10. Montana

Top origin metro areas for arriving U-Haul customers outside Oregon

  1. Seattle, WA
  2. Bay Area (San Francisco and San Jose metros), CA
  3. Los Angeles, CA
  4. Phoenix, AZ
  5. Spokane, WA

San Antonio

Top origin states for arriving U-Haul customers (excluding Texas)

  1. Florida
  2. California
  3. Colorado
  4. Arizona
  5. Louisiana
  6. Georgia
  7. New Mexico
  8. Oklahoma
  9. Virginia
  10. Tennessee

Top origin metro areas for arriving U-Haul customers outside Texas

  1. Phoenix, AZ
  2. Denver, CO
  3. Los Angeles, CA
  4. Colorado Springs, CO
  5. Washington, D.C.

Seattle

Top origin states for arriving U-Haul customers (excluding Washington)

  1. Oregon
  2. California
  3. Texas
  4. Arizona
  5. Idaho
  6. Colorado
  7. Utah
  8. Nevada
  9. Montana
  10. Florida

Top origin metro areas for arriving U-Haul customers outside Washington

  1. Portland, OR
  2. Bay Area (San Francisco and San Jose metros), CA
  3. Phoenix, AZ
  4. Los Angeles, CA
  5. Denver, CO

Earlier in July the Globe reported on U-Haul’s 2025 report showing that more Californians rented one-way U-Haul trucks to leave the state in 2024, than residents of any other state, once again finds – for the fifth year in a row – the once Golden State finished 50th in the U-Haul Growth Index.

California ranked last in U-Haul growth.

We call this “The Gavin Newsom effect.”

2024 U-Haul Growth States

1 SOUTH CAROLINA (4)
2 TEXAS (1)
3 NORTH CAROLINA (3)
4 FLORIDA (2)
5 TENNESSEE (5)
6 ARIZONA (8)
7 WASHINGTON (7)
8 INDIANA (27)
9 UTAH (13)
10 IDAHO (6)
11 OKLAHOMA (41)
12 ARKANSAS (17)
13 MAINE (31)
14 OHIO (23)
15 GEORGIA (18)
16 ALABAMA (22)
17 VIRGINIA (10)
18 MINNESOTA (20)
19 SOUTH DAKOTA (19)
20 VERMONT (12)
21 DELAWARE (15)
22 WISCONSIN (26)
23 IOWA (24)
24 MONTANA (21)
25 KENTUCKY (29)
26 HAWAII (25)
27 ALASKA (34)
28 MISSOURI (28)
29 NEBRASKA (35)
30 WEST VIRGINIA (30)
31 NORTH DAKOTA (32)
32 KANSAS (33)
33 NEW HAMPSHIRE (40)
34 OREGON (37)
35 NEVADA (11)
36 WYOMING (14)
37 NEW MEXICO (16)
38 RHODE ISLAND (36)
39 MISSISSIPPI (39)
40 COLORADO (9)
41 CONNECTICUT (42)
42 MARYLAND (44)
43 MICHIGAN (46)
44 LOUISIANA (45)
45 ILLINOIS (48)
46 PENNSYLVANIA (38)
47 NEW YORK (43)
48 NEW JERSEY (47)
49 MASSACHUSETTS (49)
50 CALIFORNIA (50)

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