Table 6 presents net migration to nonraetropolitan areas to the 

 Southern New England states of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode 

 Island. Both Connecticut and Massachusetts had a net inmigration to 

 nonmetropolitan areas which amounted to 12.7 and 17.1 percent of the 1970 

 nonmetropolitan population, respectively. However, both of these states 

 reported a net outmigration of 20-2A year olds from their nonmetropolitan 

 areas, the only age group where losses occurred. Rhode Island, in 

 contrast, had a slight net loss of persons from 1960 to 1970 in non- 

 metropolitan areas but reported wide variations in net migration by age 

 groups. For example, persons 30-3A years of age recorded a net outmigra- 

 tion from nonmetropolitan areas of 4,985 or 47.2 percent of the 1970 

 population of that age. Persons 20-24 years of age in nonmetropolitan 

 areas had a net inmigration of 10,733 which represented 165.3 percent of 

 the 1970 expected population. The reasons for this heavy net inmigration 

 of 20-24 year olds in Rhode Island are unclear, but it is a pattern not 

 typical of nonraetropolitan areas in most of the states in the Northeast 

 Region. 



Table 6: Net Migration for Nonmetropolitan Areas in Connecticut, 

 Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, 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. 



