@article{Swanson:334182,
      recid = {334182},
      author = {Swanson, Linda L.},
      title = {What Attracts New Residents to Nonmetro Areas?},
      address = {1986-04},
      number = {2487-2023-580},
      series = {Rural Development Research Report No. 56},
      pages = {19},
      year = {1986},
      abstract = {Most changes in the size and composition of a population  occur because of the movement of residents rather than  birth and death rates.  Migrants from metro areas, who have  provided much of the growth in rural areas since the  1970's, have tended to move to nonmetro counties that  ranked high in amenities.  Job-related reasons were less  important to these new residents.  Knowing the causes of  nonmetro growth is important because today's mobile society  makes planning by small communities difficult.  This report  assesses migration to nonmetro counties during 1975-80,  whether the migrants came from metro or other nonmetro  areas, and to what region they were most likely to move.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/334182},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.334182},
}