Telephone surveys of 306 recent in-migrants and 323 long-term residents, aged 60 and older, in 12 retirement-destination mid-Atlantic counties found that being an in-migrant was related to use of recreation-oriented public services, but that other characteristics of older individuals (age, gender, education, income, and health status) predicted…

A disproportionate share of the U.S. elderly population lives in nonmetro areas and has substantially more poverty than the metro elderly population. The nonmetro elderly's poverty rate was 21% in 1980 versus 13% for metro elderly, while median incomes were $4,111 versus $5,003. Lower personal incomes of the nonmetro elderly, regression analysis…