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A sourced, annually updated statistics page tracking who is moving into the region, where they land, and when they move.
Metro Atlanta added roughly 64,400 residents in the year ending April 2025, and every one of the region’s 11 core counties grew. Those figures, along with dozens of others scattered across Census Bureau releases, Atlanta Regional Commission estimates, and national van-line studies, have now been gathered in one place: the Atlanta Moving Statistics report, a free public resource published and maintained by LIOO Moving, an Atlanta-based, licensed Georgia household goods carrier.
The report compiles migration, housing, and moving-industry data that journalists, researchers, and prospective residents otherwise have to assemble from a dozen federal and regional sources. Each statistic on the page names its underlying source and vintage, and the company has committed to reviewing and refreshing the page annually, with the next scheduled update in July 2027.
Metro Atlanta recorded the third-largest numeric population gain of any U.S. metro in the year ending July 2025, adding 61,953 residents, behind only Houston and Dallas, according to Census Bureau metro estimates. The 11-county region tracked by the Atlanta Regional Commission now counts 5,285,474 people, part of a broader metropolitan area of roughly 6.3 million, the sixth largest in the country.
The sources of that growth have shifted. Census components-of-change data indicate that about two of every three net newcomers to the region since 2020 arrived through international migration. Among domestic arrivals, metro New York ranks as the single largest origin, according to Census and Harvard migration-flow research. Georgia as a whole continues to attract more movers than it loses: United Van Lines measured the state at 53.5 percent inbound in its National Movers Study, with a new job cited as the most common reason for the move.
Growth is not landing evenly. Fulton County led the region in 2024 to 2025 with about 18,800 new residents, followed by Gwinnett County at about 15,200, per Atlanta Regional Commission estimates. The report also documents a slower overall pace: the region’s growth rate of about 1.2 percent a year this decade is less than half its 1990s pace.
The page pairs those public figures with operational data from the company’s own dispatch records, including when Atlanta households actually move. Nationally, about 60 percent of moves compress into the May-through-September window, a pattern the company sees reflected in its own booking calendar and one that shapes pricing and availability across the industry.
“We kept sending reporters and customers to five different websites to answer basic questions about who is moving to Atlanta. Now the numbers live in one place, every one of them sourced, and we update the page every year,” said a LIOO Moving spokesperson.
The report’s publication reflects a broader shift in how local service companies contribute to their markets. Rather than commissioning promotional surveys, LIOO Moving assembled existing government and academic data, cited each source, and released the compilation for public use. The company explicitly invites journalists and bloggers to cite the page, asking only that they link it and name the underlying source for each statistic.
The full report is available at lioomoving.com/blog/atlanta-moving-statistics/ and is free to cite with attribution.
LIOO Moving is a licensed, insured Georgia household goods carrier certificated by the Georgia Department of Public Safety’s Motor Carrier Compliance Division. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the company provides residential, apartment, commercial, and long-distance moving services within Georgia, along with packing, labor-only, and moving-and-storage options, across Metro Atlanta and surrounding communities. Founded in 2020, LIOO Moving operates seven days a week, publishes its hourly rates, and as of July 2026 holds a 4.7-star rating across more than 325 verified Google reviews.
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