Arizona’s largest cities showed some of the most varied mobility patterns in the country between 2019 and 2024. A new PropertyShark analysis of the latest Census data on long-distance migration found that, while most major U.S. cities saw owners moving less and renters moving more, Chandler recorded the sharpest renter mobility decline among the country’s 100 largest cities (-7.46 percentage points), with owner mobility also down (-0.4 pp).
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Nationally, renters moved at nearly four times the rate of homeowners in 2024, with renter mobility rising in 64 of the 100 largest cities and owner mobility falling in 61.
Additional Arizona findings:
- Mesa and Tucson were among the 23/100 large U.S. cities where both renters (1.79 pp and 0.84 pp) and owners moved more (0.98 pp and 0.89 pp).
- In Scottsdale, owner activity dropped (-1.64 pp), marking one of the steepest declines among the country’s largest cities, while renter mobility rose (3.41 pp).
- Glendale (-0.43 pp), Phoenix (-0.28 pp) and Gilbert (-0.66 pp) saw owners moving less, while renter movement picked up (1.60 pp, 1.73 pp and 1.07 pp, respectively).
Get the full breakdown of how owner and renter mobility evolved across the 100 largest U.S. cities between 2019 and 2024: https://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/2026/05/07/owner-renter-mobility-change-100-largest-us-cities/.
