. According to the Population Register, at least. However, many of the 31 percent who stayed put have probably also spent some time away from home to pursue education without reporting a change of address. Nevertheless, many move back home again. In the country as a whole, half of the population we have studied lived in their childhood municipality when they were 35, just over half in the most central municipalities, and only 35 percent in the least central ones.

Anyway, some still move from the most central municipality to the least central ones, but there aren't many, and many of them also move back within a few years. It's more common for young adults with low education than for those with high education to move from urban areas to rural areas. Among those who move, more women than men stay put. Nevertheless, over 40 percent of those who have moved from centrality 1-4 to centrality 5-6 still lived in centrality 5-6 when they were 35 years old. For the rural areas, the problem is that the flow in the other direction - from rural areas to urban centers - is much larger.

We have specifically looked at migration to the cities, which here is limited to the four largest: Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, and Stavanger. Those who have moved to the cities have largely chosen the nearest big city, except for those who have moved from Northern Norway, who have Oslo as their top choice. However, if Tromsø had been included as a major city, we would have seen that many from Troms and Finnmark have moved there. For many, their stay in the big cities is temporary, and there are many who then move in the direction of their childhood municipality. Oslo differs from the other three cities in that more people stay for longer, and that migration out of Oslo continues to a greater extent after turning 35, resulting in a greater outflow of children from Oslo than from the other cities.

The Action zone for Nord-Troms and Finnmark is favored with measures aimed at creating an attractive region to live, work, and operate businesses in. In our report, we have compared the development in the intervention zone with similar centrality classes in the rest of the country. In centrality class 4 - which is Alta and Hammerfest - the intervention zone stands out positively from the same centrality class in the rest of the country, with less outmigration and more immigration. The same is also true for the municipalities with centrality 5 and 6 in the intervention zone, although not to the same extent as in Alta and Hammerfest. At the same time, the turnover in the intervention zone is much higher than in municipalities with the same centrality in the rest of the country. However, after subtracting the outflow of immigrants, the net effect is still a greater net immigration in the intervention zone than elsewhere.