A survey released this month shows that a “distressing number” of young people living in Boston are likely to move out of the metro area within the next five years.
Thepollcommissioned by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce found that 26 percent of 20 to 30-year-olds see themselves moving from Beantown in the next five years.
That figure is up from25 percentin 2023, so not the direction local leaders would like to see.
The main factors respondents listed as “total important” in their decision to move are job availability (79 percent), safety (79 percent), cost of rent (78 percent), and ability to buy a home (72 percent).
A “distressing number” of young people are looking to leave the Greater Boston area, a new survey shows. Here’s why.https://t.co/PFPUi9CwWo
— NBC10 Boston (@NBC10Boston)April 23, 2026
The poll also highlighted a “concerning decline” in the day-to-day life satisfaction of young people living in Boston, now at 79 percent, down 10 percent from 2023’s finding of 89 percent.
Of those planning to leave, over half look to move to states in the Southwest (23 percent) or the Southeast (23 percent).
However, 45 percent of those planning to leaveBostonwould want to end up within Massachusetts.
Boston.comreported in February that a net of more than 30,000 residents left Massachusetts for other states in 2025.
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