An independent ModelMoving analysis of interstate relocation interest, route-search patterns, housing context, and moving-industry migration signals — with special attention to Northeast-to-Florida corridors and specialty Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico routes.
2026 edition · Published August 10, 2026 · Built from ModelMoving route-interest observations and current public migration, moving-industry, and housing research.
The strongest patterns are not isolated keywords. They appear across related origin markets, destination families, specialty corridors, and independent relocation datasets.
Florida-bound relocation interest remains the clearest corridor family across ModelMoving's Northeast-focused route observations.
New York-origin Florida routes repeatedly emerge among ModelMoving's strongest observed relocation-interest patterns.
Boston-to-Florida demand is broad enough to support closer looks at Miami, Orlando, Fort Myers, and other destination markets.
Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico create distinct long-haul planning needs and continue to warrant dedicated route research.
New York, Long Island, Westchester, North Jersey, Massachusetts, and Boston all contribute to a broader Florida-bound pattern. Rather than treat those as isolated pages, ModelMoving analyzes them as a connected relocation corridor.
New York and Boston provide the strongest broad-market signals, while Long Island, Westchester, North Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts add local depth to the same directional trend.
| Corridor family | 2026 signal | ModelMoving view | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York → Florida | Leading | Strongest recurring corridor family | Combines broad informational demand with route-specific moving intent. |
| Boston / Massachusetts → Florida | High | Expanding destination depth | Supports closer analysis of Miami, Orlando, Fort Myers, and statewide Florida demand. |
| Long Island / Westchester / North Jersey → Florida | Growing | Localized Northeast demand | Shows that the broader corridor persists at smaller origin-market levels. |
| Alaska / Hawaii / Puerto Rico | Specialty | Distinct planning market | Long-haul geography and service constraints create a different research and planning need. |
ModelMoving also monitors routes where search behavior, specialty planning needs, or regional demand suggest a meaningful opportunity for deeper coverage.
A notable specialty-route signal connecting a core Northeast origin market with one of the country's most complex long-haul destinations.
Reinforces that Alaska interest is not limited to West Coast origins and can appear within Northeast long-distance planning.
Michigan city and statewide routes provide a developing Midwest counterpoint to ModelMoving's Northeast-heavy coverage.
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo, and related markets expand the network into practical Midwest interstate corridors.
A distinct relocation category with specialized route questions and strong relevance to Florida and Northeast origin/destination markets.
Hawaii remains a specialty relocation market where geography, timing, and service availability can materially change move planning.
ModelMoving intentionally maintains specialty-route coverage because these moves can involve different planning questions, geographic constraints, destination access, and service availability than ordinary contiguous-state moves.
Alaska pages produced several of ModelMoving's better relative visibilitys, including New Jersey-to-Alaska and New York-to-Alaska. That makes Alaska a disproportionate authority opportunity relative to its raw impression volume.
Hawaii remains part of ModelMoving's specialty-route architecture, especially for mainland origins such as California, Texas, Florida, New York, and New Jersey. Hawaii remains a standing specialty market within ModelMoving's route research because mainland-to-island moves require distinct planning considerations.
Puerto Rico-to-mainland visibility produced a recorded engagement signal in the reviewed snapshot, reinforcing Puerto Rico as a distinctive relocation corridor within ModelMoving's specialty-route research.
The sources below are used only as context. ModelMoving does not combine third-party searches, mover shipments, survey answers, or Census estimates into its first-party totals.
Census reported that 2.1% of the U.S. population moved to a different state in 2024. Its 2024 state-to-state migration tables include the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
View Census mobility data →United's 2025 National Movers Study reported New Jersey and New York among its leading outbound states and Nassau-Suffolk, New York among its highest-outbound metro areas in the company's shipment data.
View United's 2025 study →moveBuddha reported that Florida represented 30% of net inbound searches in its first-half 2026 calculator dataset and that Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and New York showed strong outbound pressure in its search ratios.
View moveBuddha 2026 trends →Freddie Mac's House Price Index provides monthly national, state, and metro-level home-price series. ModelMoving uses housing data only as context when evaluating possible relocation drivers.
View Freddie Mac HPI →Measures: visibility of ModelMoving pages in Google search results, search queries, clicks, and route-level lead signals where available.
Measures: survey-based estimates of where people live now compared with where they lived one year earlier.
Measure: either actual shipments handled by a network, survey responses, or search/calculator activity depending on the source.
Transparency matters because the current ModelMoving dataset is useful but still young, geographically concentrated, and much smaller than national datasets.
ModelMoving's first-party layer is based on aggregated route-interest observations across its interstate route network. Public presentation emphasizes relative corridor strength and directional patterns rather than disclosing internal SEO performance metrics.
ModelMoving intentionally concentrates its current research footprint in the Northeast, selected Florida-bound corridors, Ohio and Michigan markets, and specialty Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico routes.
The report should therefore be read as route intelligence within ModelMoving's monitored interstate markets, complemented by independent national datasets where broader context is useful.
ModelMoving uses route-interest signals to compare corridors directionally. These observations help identify where people appear to be researching interstate moves, but they are not presented as completed-move totals.
U.S. Census, United Van Lines, moveBuddha, and Freddie Mac data are cited separately for contextual comparison. Their metrics are not merged into ModelMoving's first-party totals.
Please attribute first-party ModelMoving findings to ModelMoving and link to the evergreen report URL. Individual third-party statistics should be attributed to their original source.
ModelMoving. “Interstate Route Trends 2026.” ModelMoving Research, August 10, 2026. https://routes.modelmoving.com/interstate-route-trends/
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