{"id":9046,"date":"2021-02-04T10:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/as-the-pandemic-persisted-financial-pressures-became-a-bigger-factor-in-why-americans-decided-to-move\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T23:43:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:43:35","slug":"as-the-pandemic-persisted-financial-pressures-became-a-bigger-factor-in-why-americans-decided-to-move","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2021\/02\/04\/as-the-pandemic-persisted-financial-pressures-became-a-bigger-factor-in-why-americans-decided-to-move\/","title":{"rendered":"As the pandemic persisted, financial pressures became a bigger factor in why Americans decided to move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A young boy helps his mother unpack toys at their new home in El Cerrito, California, in September 2020. They had moved to be closer to family in part because of COVID-19. (Brittany Hosea-Small\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

When COVID-19<\/a> began spreading across the United States early last year, millions of people fled communities<\/a> where they feared getting infected or headed home from closed-down college campuses.<\/a> As lockdowns and economic pain dragged on, pandemic migrants surveyed last fall were more likely than those interviewed in the spring to have relocated due to financial stress<\/a> and less likely to cite risks of getting the coronavirus, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The survey also found that where <\/em>people moved changed over the course of the pandemic. In November, a smaller share of those who moved because of the coronavirus outbreak said they had moved in with a family member than was the case in a June survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How we did this<\/div>