We've taken a look at the latest migration data from the Office for National Stastics which includes figures on the number of people who have left Birmingham for other English cities and towns - and where they have move to.
The data covers the year to mid-2022 and it shows that 75,125 people left Birmingham to move to different locations across England in those 12 months. Meanwhile 59,091 people moved to Birmingham from towns and cities across England in the same time period.
So there were 16,034 more people leaving Birmingham to live in other English towns and cities than people moving into Brum. You can see the most popular places that people left to live in Birmingham in our story here: The top 10 cities an towns Brummies move to if they decide to leave Birmingham Just like any other big city, the Birmingham population is constantly changing with people moving in and out. Being Britain's biggest city outside London and lying in the geographic centre of the UK, Brum has a great network of trains, roads as well as an airport connecting people internationally and domestically.
The data doesn't identify the reasons people are leaving - or arriving in Birmingham - but following career goals can be a key reason.
We took a look at the ONS data to figure out which are the top 15 places Brummies are moving to. Here is the full list of 15 top cities and towns Birmingham residents moved to in the year to mid-2022:
13. Leicester, England
871 people left from Birmingham to Leicester in the year to mid-2022. Meanwhile 988 people moved from Leicester to Birmingham in the same time. (Photo - David Hallam-Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) | David Hallam-Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Photo: David Hallam-Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
14. Shropshire
838 people left Birmingham for Shropshire in the year to mid-2022. Meanwhile 464 people moved from Shropshire to Birmingham in the same time. | Graham - stock.adobe.com
15. North Warwickshire
789 people left Birmingham for North Warwickshire in the year to mid-2022. Meanwhile 249 people from North Warwickshire moved to Birmingham in the same time. | david hughes - stock.adobe.com