of 175,525 from 1960 to 1970, 163,996 or 93.4 percent was white net 

 inmigration. However, young whites 20-29 years of age continue to record 

 net outmigration, a pattern for both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan 

 areas. This net loss represented about 8.5 percent of whites in that age 

 group living in the nonmetropolitan Northeast in 1970. 



For a region as large and diverse as the Northeast, many important 

 sub-regional migration trends may be masked by total aggregate data. 

 Table 5 presents net migration by age for the nonmetropolitan areas in the 

 Northern New England states of New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. From 

 1960 to 1970, Maine was the only state in Northern New England not to 

 experience a net inmigration to nonmetropolitan areas. New Hampshire 

 recorded a net gain of 44,287 persons or 9.4 percent of the 1970 popula- 

 tion in nonmetropolitan areas. Vermont had a net inmigration to nonmetro- 

 politan areas of 15,428 persons but Maine recorded a net outmigration from 

 nonmetropolitan areas of 58,373 persons which was spread across all age 

 groups except 60-69 year olds. 



Table 5: Net Migration for Nonmetropolitan Areas in New Hampshire, 

 Vermont, and Maine, 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. 



