More than 100 people a day moving to Charlotte region, study shows

The growth in Charlotte is on full display from the cranes up high to the workers down below.

“I feel like I always see like the new construction coming up and I always want to know what they’re doing," Merideth Turney, who was walking through Uptown, said.

A big driver of the new builds is the number of people coming. New research from the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance finds 113 people a day are moving to the region - the highest level in more than a decade.

“They tend to skew a little bit younger than the people who live here already," Antony Burton, Principal Researcher with the Charlotte Alliance, said. "They're slightly more educated, in general. Slightly wealthier than the people who are already here.”

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