Suburbs and small cities are booming in the U.S., with more and more people every year ditching urban life for the allure of planned communities, better schools, and a little more peace and quiet.
Move Buddha, a site that helps people compare moving costs and save money on big moves, used search data to find the suburbs and smaller cities that are most in demand this year. It looked at data from the 50 most populous metro areas to see where Americans are moving the most in 2025.
(A quick note: Some of the cities that made the list aren’t exactly small, but sit next to larger cities and are part of that anchor city’s metro area.)
Continue reading to see which ones made the list:
Fort Mill, South Carolina, a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, came in eighth place.
While certainly a city and not a suburb, Saint Paul, Minnesota, which lies next to its larger sister city of Minneapolis, made the list as number seven.
Tempe, Arizona, which is a suburb of Phoenix, got sixth place.
Frisco, which is part of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro Area, made the list at number five.
Vancouver, Washington, which is just across the state line from Portland, Oregon, made the list at number four.
St. Augustine, Florida, a small city 40 miles south of Jacksonville, made the list at number three.
Meridian, Idaho, a fast-growing city outside Boise, came in second.
Summerville, South Carolina, a suburb of Charleston, was ranked the most popular place Americans want to move in 2025.