Since 2020, Oklahoma has consistently been among the nation’s top states for domestic migration, as the number of people moving to Oklahoma from other states has far outnumbered those leaving.

A recent report from Hire a Helper, a moving company, indicates that the trend continued in 2025 as Oklahoma ranked among the top 10 states for net domestic migration.

Oklahoma was a top 10 state in net moves, with 10,534 net new residents moving to Oklahoma from other states in 2025. That ranked ninth-most nationally. Oklahoma attracted slightly more net movers than neighboring Arkansas, which ranked 10th.

Ranked by net movers, the only states gaining more new citizens from other U.S. states than Oklahoma were Texas, which ranked first nationally with 68,318 net movers, followed by South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Idaho.

California and New York experienced the largest outmigration in 2025, losing 98,568 and 55,905 net residents, respectively.

Oklahoma also ranked in the top 10 states when migration changes were calculated based on the number of movers gained or lost per 10,000 existing residents, a measure designed to highlight the states experiencing the strongest growth considering existing population.

Oklahoma gained 26.4 adults per 10,000 residents in 2025. That was a higher per-capita rate than all surrounding states except Arkansas, which gained 33 adults per 10,000. Texas, despite gaining far more new residents in raw terms, gained 23 adults per capita, slightly lower than Oklahoma.

Only Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Maine, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee gained more adults per capita through domestic migration than Oklahoma.

On a per-capita basis, California lost 25.1 adults per 10,000 residents, while New York lost 28.2. Both states placed in the bottom four when population loss was measured on a per-capita basis, alongside Massachusetts (loss of 37.9 adults per 10,000) and Maryland (loss of 27.4 adults).

Gov. Kevin Stitt noted the report in a post on X, stating, “People are moving from the coasts to Oklahoma, thanks to our low cost of living, growing job market, quality of life, and commonsense conservative values. More and more families are looking for a better place to pursue the American Dream, and they’re choosing the Great State of Oklahoma.”

The Hire a Helper analysis is based on information from data provider PGM, which is part of the Porch Group of companies. PGM’s database included 14,977,223 adult moves tracked for the full year of January 2025 through December 2025.

The Hire a Helper report continues trends previously reported by other sources. In recent years, numerous reports have found that Oklahoma is among the top state destinations for citizens moving out of other states, with Oklahoma consistently ranked among the top 15 states, and often in the top 10. Those transplants increased Oklahoma’s net adjusted gross income by more than $1 billion from 2020 to 2022, based on Internal Revenue Service data. 

The influx of new residents to Oklahoma has occurred against a backdrop in which state policymakers have advanced numerous conservative policies, including tax cuts, robust school choice, and legislation addressing prominent social concerns, such as banning female-identifying men from accessing women’s bathrooms.