U-Haul ranks Utah No. 4 among the states for growth in 2018, measured by how many one-way, do-it-yourself movers arrive in Utah compared to how many leave.
In contrast, the U.S. Census Bureau ranked Utah No. 3 for population growth last year, and estimated that 40 percent of those new residents came from people moving to the state (and the other 60 percent was from more births than deaths). The Census Bureau also ranked Utah No. 1 in population growth during the past decade.
U-Haul says its data is a gauge of how well states and cities are attracting and maintaining residents, although it says its data does not correlate directly to population or economic growth.