Seattle ranked as second most transient large city: study Sign In FacebookTwitterEmail According to the study, the rate at which people move around has been declining since the early 2000s.MediaNews Group/Boulder Daily Ca/MediaNews Group via Getty Images Seattle ranked as the second most transient large city across the U.S., according to a new study. The study, from Construction Coverage, found 23.4% of the population moved throughout the year, a total of 175,193 movers. This includes the 113,430 people who moved within the same county, 13,772 who moved from a different county in the same state, 36,926 who moved from a different state and 11,065 who moved from abroad.