This article compares elderly and general interstate migration patterns by volume and by salient streams. The top ten ranking origin and destination states were identified for both populations. The differences are greater for destination states than for origin states. This is primarily due to Florida and California, which account for a third of the inmigration of people age 60 and over, but only 18% of the general inmigration. The transaction flow analysis shows that California and Florida dominate the salient flow structure for the retirement-aged migrants to a degree not true for the general population.
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