The purpose of this research was to study the influences upon the volume and geographical patterns of retirement migration. The research supplemented earlier studies by the authors and Valerie Karn (who had investigated the circumstances of migrants in Clacton and Bexhill), from which the basic characteristics of retired migrants were known: they were overwhelmingly owner-occupiers before and after the move, largely in social class II and III, from white collar occupations with medium to high incomes, and from small households. Married couples without others were much over-represented. This survey focuses on housing, personal and family circumstances, residential and migration histories to specify further distinctive characters of movers