SEOUL, April 22 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's population mobility hit a five-year high for the month of March amid the surging housing transactions, statistical ministry data showed Wednesday.
The number of those who changed residence to a different province or town was 609,000 in March, up 11.0 percent compared to the same month of last year, according to the Ministry of Data and Statistics.
It reached the highest for any March since 2021 on the back of a fast increase in home sales, the number of which jumped 30 percent for the first two months of 2026 from a year earlier.
The figure was also affected by policies to attract new residents and pilot programs for rural basic income.
The population mobility rate, which gauges the number of people moving to a different region for every 100 people, gained 1.4 percentage points over the year to 14.1 percent in March. ■
