Table 2: Net Migration by Age and Color, Northeast, 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. 



percent of the 1970 population in this age group. In fact, the relative 

 significance of net migration was much greater for nonwhites at all age 

 levels up to 65 years of age. This means that changes in the age structure 

 of the Northeast's nonwhites were primarily due to differential net 

 inmigration during the 1960's. 



To better understand the migration patterns described previously. 

 Tables 3 and 4 show net migration by age and color for these two areas 

 from 1960 to 1970. Data in Table 3 clearly shows that the white popula- 

 tion residing in metropolitan areas of the Northeast experienced a net 

 outmigration at all ages except for the 0-4 and 25-39 year olds. White 

 persons 20-24 years of age in metropolitan areas had the largest net 

 outmigration of any age group but the volume of net outmigration also 

 increased with successive age intervals between the 40-44 and 65-69 year 

 olds. In terms of net migration rates for metropolitan whites, the impact 

 was relatively small, less than 10 percent for any age group. 



Net migration of nonwhites to metropolitan areas in the Northeast 

 had a pattern opposite that for whites. Nonwhites experienced a sub- 

 stantial volume and rate of net inmigration at all age groups except the 

 65-69 year olds. The highest net gains for metropolitan nonwhites was in 

 the 20-29 year old group which reported a net inmigration of 252,149 

 persons. The magnitude of net migration of nonwhites to metropolitan 

 areas in the Northeast may be seen by the fact that of the 747,187 net 

 inmigrants, 735,658 or 98.5 percent of the nonwhites moved to metropolitan 

 areas during the 1960's. 



Table 4 contains data for net migration by age and color for the 

 Northeast nonmetropolitan areas and shows that the net gain was due 

 primarily to white net inmigration. Of the total net inmigration 



