Residential Mobility

The Residential Mobility indicator is the percentage of the population living in the same house as the previous year. Higher proportions are better because of the positive effect on neighborhood health.

A low percentage of residents remaining in the same home from year to year is a proxy for multiple, disruptive moves. Disruptive or multiple moves can affect health due to the stress related to moving. Stress can be from reactive moves and/or weakened social supports. These factors affect individual mental and physical health. Frequent household moves are linked to childhood abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, and increased likelihood of smoking and childhood suicide. Children in families that move often may have to repeat grades, and are be more likely to be suspended from school or have emotional and behavioral problems. Childhood residential instability increases lifetime risk of depression. Frequent housing turnover may also reflect negative housing conditions, or contribute to them. Although high residential instability is usually a sign of distress, some neighborhoods have high residential mobility because of less concerning reasons. For example, many college students move between school years in the University of Minnesota neighborhood. Residential Mobility is in the Social Cohesion domain.

Neighborhoodsort descending Indicator Value Rank
Armatage 87.7% 14
Audubon Park 84.7% 22
Bancroft 88.8% 10
Beltrami 68.0% 73
Bottineau 76.1% 52
Bryant 80.1% 40
Bryn - Mawr 85.8% 19
Calhoun Area Residents Action Group (CARAG) 70.8% 65
Camden Industrial 77.0% 51
Cedar - Isles - Dean 73.8% 59
Cedar Riverside 48.9% 84
Central 80.4% 39
Cleveland 73.7% 60
Columbia Park 83.2% 29
Como 59.1% 81
Cooper 81.9% 36
Corcoran 77.7% 49
Diamond Lake 89.2% 9
Downtown East 59.5% 80
Downtown West 57.9% 83
East Calhoun (ECCO) 68.9% 71
East Harriet 79.4% 41
East Isles 69.7% 68
East Phillips 74.9% 57
Elliot Park 60.9% 79
Ericsson 91.3% 2
Field 90.5% 5
Folwell 70.2% 67
Fulton 91.1% 3
Hale 87.9% 13
Harrison 79.1% 43
Hawthorne 75.6% 55
Hiawatha 82.6% 33
Holland 76.1% 52
Howe 85.6% 20
Humboldt Industrial Area 83.0% 31
Jordan 71.8% 63
Keewaydin 94.3% 1
Kenny 90.2% 6
Kenwood 83.8% 27
King Field 81.4% 38
Lind - Bohanon 83.9% 25
Linden Hills 82.4% 34
Logan Park 86.3% 17
Longfellow 84.4% 24
Loring Park 68.8% 72
Lowry Hill 78.3% 48
Lowry Hill East 65.5% 75
Lyndale 78.7% 46
Lynnhurst 88.2% 11
Marcy Holmes 43.5% 85
Marshall Terrace 83.2% 29
McKinley 69.2% 70
Mid - City Industrial 59.1% 81
Midtown Phillips 72.1% 62
Minnehaha 83.4% 28
Morris Park 86.0% 18
Near - North 74.6% 58
Nicollet Island - East Bank 79.0% 45
North Loop 63.1% 77
Northeast Park 68.0% 73
Northrop 88.2% 11
Page 91.1% 3
Phillips West 71.5% 64
Powderhorn Park 79.1% 43
Prospect Park - East River Road 41.7% 86
Regina 89.8% 7
Seward 75.6% 55
Sheridan 79.2% 42
Shingle Creek 83.0% 31
St. Anthony East 72.2% 61
St. Anthony West 78.6% 47
Standish 85.0% 21
Steven's Square - Loring Heights 61.8% 78
Sumner - Glenwood (Heritage Park) 84.7% 22
Tangletown 82.1% 35
University of Minnesota 41.7% 86
Ventura Village 69.3% 69
Victory 87.4% 15
Waite Park 89.7% 8
Webber - Camden 77.6% 50
Wenonah 86.6% 16
West Calhoun 70.4% 66
Whittier 64.8% 76
Willard - Hay 76.1% 52
Windom 83.9% 25
Windom Park 81.7% 37

Key Citations:
1. Berkman LF, Syme SL. Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: a nine-year follow-up study of Alameda County residents. American Journal of Epidemiology. 1979;109(2):186-204.

2. Bures RM. 2003. Childhood residential stability and health at midlife. American Journal of Public Health 93:1144-8.

3. Cooper, Merrill. 2001. Housing Affordability: A Children's Issue. Ottawa: Canadian Policy Research Networks Discussion Paper.

4. Dong M. 2005. Childhood residential mobility and multiple health risks during adolescence and adulthood. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 159:11-4-1110.

5. Gilman SE, Kawachi I, Fizmaurice GM Buka L. 2003. Socio-economic status, family disruption and residential stability in childhood: relation to onset, recurrence and remission of major depression. Psychol Medicine 33:1341-55.