USPS Data Shows Miami Was #1 For Growth From 2019 To 2022

There is yet another new data point showing Miami’s rapid growth since the pandemic, this time from the United States Postal Service.

The National Association of Realtors analyzed USPS 2022 change-of-address data last month for the study.

According to the analysis, the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL MSA has seen a 56.2% increase in inbound moves from 2019 to 2022.

Miami was far ahead of any other MSA in growth during the period, with the second-ranked region behind by double digits.

Overall, the ranking of areas with high inbound move rates is dominated by Florida and other sunbelt regions.

 

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Melo is sigma and Chad
1 month ago

Okay so lets start with expanding the metromover to midtown, rail to West Dade and additional stations along the FEC tracks.

anonymous
1 month ago

listen that makes too much sense. Under no circumstances will the local politicians do anything that makes sense. Instead, lets build more bus routes!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Metromover to Midtown doesn’t when a Brightline station is already proposed. The money should be spent elsewhere, like MetroRAIL to South Beach or Miami Airport to Douglas Road.

FL has had enough
1 month ago

NOWAY to brightline in Midtown. It’s already so slow and too many stops. Aventura was a waste. Dade county needs to stop hijacking Floridas only high speed rail and make its own rail system!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Brightline will not stop in Midtown, but Tri Rail will. Tri Rail will have a stop on the line that currently goes to WPB, and via Aventura to Ft. Lauderdale Airport.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Amen! That’s perfect. Local train that leads to the core where people can transfer to a Brightline express train.

Maybe one day TriRail can replace Brightline Aventura.

Joe CARollo
1 month ago

How bout more highways and trollys yall

Mr. Carollo’s Chance
1 month ago

Mr Carollo needs to greatly enhance Brickell, Riverside and Little Havana roads and streetscapes and bring in quality businesses and residences to our district, otherwise respectfully we can no longer support him.

Not Anonymous
1 month ago

Wow! the city keeps on growing! Now to upgrade the transit infrastructure of the city so that it doesn’t become another LA with 40-minute commute times!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Yes. Extend the Mover up to Wynwood asap! Vote for a District 2 Commissioner who supports this.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Who of them support the extension? Here a downtonw resident

Anonymous
1 month ago

I’m leaning toward James Torres at the moment, although I will be interested in hearing their position on extending the Mover at the upcoming town halls. Edgewater’s town hall is tomorrow at 6pm at Cite condo, btw.

Marco
1 month ago

Vote for whoever is going to stand up and improve our community experience and not only work for private condo developers.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I don’t want homeless on the Metromover peeping into my condo from flyovers, and exposing their peep from the windows.

Anon
1 month ago

Lol So close the blinds and save up for a better location.

Anonymous
1 month ago

City commissions can do very little about a County-managed system.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Max

Anonymous
1 month ago

Geniuses who would rather spend your money on tin can buses in the sky when heavy rail that has existing along Wynwood for over 100 years would serve that purpose better.

Anon
1 month ago

Vote for a commissioner who is going to incentivize better quality development around existing metro line/mover. More expansions without using the land we have near metros = more traffic.

anon
1 month ago

I think the mover should go all the way up to the Miami design district. It’s not much to ask to build an extra mile to mile and a half of track infastructure.

MoverFan
1 month ago

The plan is for the north terminus to be at N Miami Ave / 41st St, so yeah!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Yes, considering all the R-O-W acquisition and neverending construction for flyovers which will ruin every road they run along or over, to extend somewhere whose core demographics don’t want, rather are getting a much preferred Brightline stop.

Anon
1 month ago

Flyovers enhance the roads, not destroy them. They add shade and connect people. Build em up and fly to Miami 22!

NO MORE BRIGHTLINE STATIONS IN MIAMI
1 month ago

Nobody is going to take the Brightline from Midtown to Downtown – people in Midtown are trying to get to Brickell – that is the dumbest idea ever. midtowners just need a metromovers to downtown and Brickell.

Anonymous
1 month ago

40 minute commute time in LA, and even Miami, isn’t much.

Not Anonymous
1 month ago

It is a lot as an average, which is what I’m talking about.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Avg. commute time in 2020 in Miami was 56 minutes for all transport forms, according to WPLG. It was tied with LA for longest commute time in the US.

No rail, no roads, no future
1 month ago

Pathetic out in the real world

Truth Matters
1 month ago

What came first the chicken or the egg? You don’t build transit infrastructure while having plenty parking. The only option not to become another L.A. or another Phoenix is dead cold stop with the requirements for parking. Then naturally, people will be forced to take public transportation.

Anonymous
1 month ago

another one who thinks the only way for public transit to win is to make driving worse. Gee, how about improving transit?

Anon
1 month ago

Driving can’t be any worst. It’s like an alien created the roadways – half of it has no grounding in human logic.

Anon
1 month ago

We should redo 75% of the intersections and roadways. Start planning City! What we have now is causing accident after accident and more expense on everyone, let along the irreplaceable loss of life.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The city will keep growing and traffic congestion will only get worse

Juan
1 month ago

Do Both. Reduce parking requirements while improving public transit and then turn those old parking lots into green space for Miami residents. Win, win, win situation.

Anonymous
1 month ago

No, not everyone will be able to take transit. Another one who thinks Downtown is a bedroom community, serving only residents that live in the core and not workers. Not how a real downtown works.

Anon
1 month ago

The City needs to add incentives to luxury developments around metro stations. Enrich Miami by enriching the metrostation communities, and traffic will be relieved because people can walk.

Anon
1 month ago

Exactly! Just like the Brightline! Charge for the metro and maybe it’ll get nicer.

H. Ford
1 month ago

Respectfully, not everyone wants to live in a shoebox. Concentrating development /density around mass transit works up to a point. However, the 9 billion people on the planet should not be forced in shoeboxes to sustain your war against the automobile. The automobile greatly improved the standard of living by allowing masses to afford more in suburbs.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Miami doesn’t make shoeboxes.

I’ve lived in shoeboxes in NYC, I have more space now than many single family homes in the USA. That’s not even including the many decks of amenities, all at the same cost as a NYC studio (actual shoebox).

Living by the metro in Miami does not mean living in a shoebox. It means convenience, community, comforts, and carless options with the option to drive as far as you want and come back to a a City filled with opportunities.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Urban sprawl was the worst thing that ever happened to the U.S.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Forgive me for wanting to allow an opportunity for something 2,500sq ft with some lawn and a backyard that is affordable. Forcing all development around transit urban centers contributes to unaffordable housing which is dealt with by offering less and less in terms of square footage. This unaffordable cycle with the norm for smaller and smaller continues. The war on the automobile does affect our standard of living.

anon
1 month ago

Isn’t it Obvious? Build higher quality buildings around the metro stops. People will get on/off a metro if it takes them to someplace safe and spectacular, without having to take a hike through a shady dark lit area.

Celita ✝️
1 month ago

Why so many people are moving here ?

Anonymous
1 month ago

The real question is what took them so long?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Tropical metropolis by the beach – no state income tax – nice weather – also I think the pandemic his a “reset” button for a lot of people – they thought about changing their lives for the first time, and a lot of them decided to move to Florida (like me, and lots of other people I know!)

Anon
1 month ago

Me too! We love it here.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Crime infested northern states broken.

Anonymous
1 month ago

#1 in rent hikes and home prices growth, that’s for sure!

Long time Brickell resident
1 month ago

Build it and they will come. Extend the metrorail south along US 1 and west FIU, build dense development next to existing stations.

Kitty W
1 month ago

Another transit circle jerk comment section …

Anonymous
1 month ago

Could it be that traffic is so bad, that nearly all Miami residents agree on the idea that we desperately need more transit?

Gloria Wants Us to Get On Our Feet
1 month ago

While focusing on extensions we also need to focus on enhancements to what is there! We desperately need better neighborhoods around the existing metro transit. We already have so many tracks that people don’t ride. We need to keep improving these areas like the Underline and Vizcaya and add luxury properties and commercial space and host events there to get people “moving.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Metromoverseggsuals, who have never actually taken or analysed how transit should work are worse than The Brickell Bunch. At least the latter want a better neighborhood. The former only want free peoplemovers to their overpriced clubs and bars.

Miami Mind
1 month ago

We don’t care if you charge for the metro mover or line (call it the same thing hereon, nobody cares what it’s mechanics are), as long as they are nice clean safe and efficient.

The neighborhoods around the stops need to be incentivized to be luxury well lit buildings with regular events in the public squares to get people moving in and out.

Look, Brightline did that in the worst part of downtown and now it’s beautiful and filled with a diverse range of people from bathing suits to ballgowns.

Anonymous
1 month ago

That’s pretty much 70% of all comment section content here, no matter the article’s topic.