Wisconsin Finishes 13th Highest On U-Haul’s 2020 Migration Growth Ranking

California displaced Illinois as the state with the biggest net loss of U-Haul trucks in 2020, the moving company reported. And Wisconsin was ranked 41st in U-Haul’s 2019 migration growth study.

Wisconsin came in 13th highest on a new ranking measuring migration growth among the states based on one-way U-Haul truck traffic leaving or entering their borders last year.

Those states with the most migration growth are ranked based on net gains of one-way U-Haul trucks entering the state vs. trucks leaving their borders during a calendar year. More than 2 million one-way trips are logged by U-Haul every year, the company reported.

Both Texas and Florida had the most net gains in U-Haul truck traffic from 2016 to 2019 before they were displaced by Tennessee in 2020, the company said. What makes Tennessee attractive is its business-friendliness and low taxes, according to U-Haul.

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The annual ranking tracks truck traffic moving among its 22,000 truck- and trailer-sharing locations. U-Haul sees the data as a gauge of which states are attracting residents from outside their borders.

2020 Rank	State	2019 Rank
1	Tennessee	12
2	Texas	2
3	Florida	1
4	Ohio	7
5	Arizona	20
6	Colorado	42
7	Missouri	13
8	Nevada	24
9	North Carolina	3
10	Georgia	16
11	Arkansas	23
12	Indiana	9
13	Wisconsin	41
14	Oklahoma	14
15	South Carolina	4
16	West Virginia	22
17	Utah	8
18	Kentucky	37
19	Montana	26
20	Minnesota	15
21	Kansas	18
22	Alabama	6
23	New Hampshire	31
24	Iowa	30
25	South Dakota	28
26	Vermont	10
27	Delaware	21
28	Virginia	39
29	Maine	33
30	Idaho	11
31	Mississippi	25
32	Nebraska	19
33	Wyoming	27
34	Alaska	17
35	Rhode Island	35
36	Washington	5
37	North Dakota	32
38	Washington, D.C.	38
39	New Mexico	36
40	Michigan	48
41	Pennsylvania	46
42	New York	43
43	Connecticut	34
44	Louisiana	40
45	Oregon	29
46	Maryland	45
47	Massachusetts	47
48	New Jersey	44
49	Illinois	50
50	California	49