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title: "Where’s Home?"
description: "Among adults who have lived in multiple communities, four-in-ten say home is not where they currently live."
date: "2009-02-17"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2009/02/17/wheres-home/"
---

# Where’s Home?

Of those Americans who have lived in more than one place, 38% say that they do not consider their current community to be home. Americans who have lived in multiple communities have a wide range of definitions of what “home” means. About a quarter say it’s the place they were born or raised, while about one-in-five say it’s where they live now and another one-in-five say it’s where they have lived the longest. Also, some 15% say it’s where their family is from. Just 4% say it’s where they went to high school. However, for a lot of U.S.-born adults — nearly four-in-ten — there is no reason to be conflicted about where home is: They never moved from the communities where they were born. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1058/american-mobility-moversstayers-places-and-reasons)