Table 1: Net Migration by Regions and Color for Metropolitan and 

 Nonmetropolitan Areas, 1960-1970. 



*The rate is net migration expressed as a percent of the 1970 expected 

 survivors of the 1960 population plus births during the decade. 



Source: Bowles, Gladys, and Calvin L. Beale, Net Migration of the 



Population, 1960-1970, by Age, Sex, and Color, Part 7, Economic 

 Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 



It should be clearly understood that of the 49,062,000 persons 

 residing in the Northeast Region in 1970, accounting for 24.1 percent of 

 the nation's population, the majority, 42,481,000 or 86.6 percent, lived 

 within the boundaries of standard metropolitan statistical areas. While 

 we are still an urban Region, net migration flows during the decade of 

 the 1960's favored the nonmetropolitan areas. The Northeast led the rest 

 of the nation in this regard by a full decade because the national pattern 

 of net inmigration to nonmetropolitan areas did not appear until after 

 1970. 



Age structure is known to be associated with many other social and 

 economic characteristics of a population and it is perhaps the most 

 important single demographic characteristic we should analyze. Table 2 

 presents net migration estimates by age and color for this Region from 

 1960 to 1970. Several interesting patterns emerge from these data. There 

 was a net loss of young adults 20-24 years of age, the age where marriage 

 and family formation typically begins, and a net loss of the older 

 population 50 years of age and over. These losses were due to substantial 

 net outmigration of whites from the Northeast and would have been greater 

 if they were not balanced by an equally substantial net inmigration of 

 nonwhites in those same age groups. 



Net migration rates by age show the relative importance of gains or 

 losses during the decade. For the white population 20-24 years of age, 

 the net outmigration of 230,473 persons represented 6.5 percent of the 

 1970 population in this age group. For the nonwhite population 25-29 

 years of age, the net inmigration of 148,657 persons represented 72.7 



