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Besides baseball and vacation, summer is also a time when most people move.

Once again my favorite number crunchers -- the U.S. Census Bureau -- have some interesting facts and figures that will help anyone looking on doing a story about the annual migration of Americans.

For mor information, you can contact Briana Kaya, at the Census Bureau Public Information Office at pio@census.gov

U.S. Census Bureau Reports Residents Move at Higher Rate

in 2009 After Record Low in 2008

The U.S. Census Bureau announced May 10 that the national mover rate increased from 11.9 percent in 2008 (the lowest rate since the U.S. Census Bureau began tracking the data in 1948) to 12.5 percent in 2009.

According to data from Geographical Mobility: 2009, 37.1 million people 1 year and older changed residences in the U.S. within the past year. This represents an increase from 35.2 million in 2008.

In 2009, 67.3 percent of all movers stayed within the same county, 17.2 percent moved to a different county in the same state, 12.6 percent moved from a different state, and 2.9 percent moved to the U.S. from abroad.