While these cities are seeing the biggest spike in job seeking among millennials, these aren’t the top cities where millennials have been moving to... yet. Over the past year we’ve seen the millennial population grow most rapidly in Seattle, Portland and Denver. Notably, these Pacific Northwest cities have also seen the biggest increase in housing prices across the U.S, which may be why we’re seeing millennials favor these other cities now.

As the job market has evolved, millennials have continued to thrive and adjust, and as our findings show they are not shy of changing jobs or advancing their careers in less urban cities.

Methodological details: The results of this analysis represent the world as seen through the lens of LinkedIn data. As such, it is influenced by how members chose to use the site, which can vary based on professional, social, and regional culture, as well as overall site availability and accessibility. These variances were not accounted for in the analysis.

We defined Millennials using year of graduation with a bachelor’s degree, as indicated on the member profile. Members were included in the analysis if they indicated graduating with a bachelor’s degree between 2001 and 2016 and currently reside in the United States. To determine job interest among Millennials, we looked at how this group has been engaging with job openings on LinkedIn over the past 12 months, relative to the previous year.

Job interest in each city was determined by looking at the percentage growth of Millennial job views after controlling for growth of job openings on the platform. Job views coming from current residents of each city did not contribute to each city’s ranking, and only the cities with at least 20,000 monthly job openings on LinkedIn were included in the final rankings. Finally we used total LinkedIn membership to segment the cities into small, mid-size, and large, as LinkedIn membership is correlated with actual population.