October 05, 2012
--- More than
62% of Baby Boomers plan to remain in the state they live in upon retirement,
according to a PluteGroup study. ---
This is a 20% increase from two years ago when Del Webb—the
retirement community company of which PulteGroup is the parent company—asked
the same question in the 2010 Del Webb Baby Boomer Survey.
Other findings of the PulteGroup Home Index (PGHI) survey
include:
- Forty-three
percent plan to retire in the same city where they currently live;
- Nineteen
percent plan to retire within the same state, but a different city;
- More
than one-third (35%) plan to retire in a different state;
- More
than half (53%) will not take into account the proximity of their
children/grandchildren when deciding where to live in retirement; and
- Thirty-two
percent want to live within 20 miles of their children/grandchildren upon
retirement.
The study also found fewer Boomers are delaying retirement.
In the previous Del Webb survey 46% said it would take more than 10 year before
they are ready to retire, compared to 14% of respondents to the PGHI survey.
Sixty-one percent of respondents plan to retire in less than 10 years,
including 45% who believe they will be financially prepared to retire in the
same time period. Among this same group, 59% said they are either not delaying
retirement or plan to retire at a younger age than originally anticipated.