Internal migration in the U.S. has fallen consistently since the 1980s; more people today live closer to where they were born than they did in previous decades.

Internal migration in the U.S. has fallen consistently since the 1980s; more people today live closer to where they were born than they did in previous decades. And in most places in the U.S. -- certainly, the places captured by this loneliness survey -- the number of brand-new migrants is tiny relative to that population of people who were born there.