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Merced County, CA

County-to-county migration · IRS SOI · filing years 2022-2023

Net migration: -679 tax returns · -699 people · $-50,729,000 AGI

Inflow
4,726 returns · 9,237 people · $241,540,000 AGI
Outflow
5,405 returns · 9,936 people · $292,269,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Stanislaus County, CA972$48,325,000
Santa Clara County, CA674$48,846,000
Fresno County, CA228$9,630,000
San Joaquin County, CA215$9,485,000
Alameda County, CA178$10,247,000
Madera County, CA172$6,873,000
Monterey County, CA171$8,144,000
Los Angeles County, CA169$6,503,000
Sacramento County, CA143$6,273,000
San Benito County, CA128$7,627,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Stanislaus County, CA1,110$63,977,000
Santa Clara County, CA426$24,773,000
Fresno County, CA351$16,331,000
Sacramento County, CA232$10,206,000
Madera County, CA221$12,931,000
San Joaquin County, CA213$8,807,000
Los Angeles County, CA161$6,484,000
Alameda County, CA126$6,234,000
San Diego County, CA111$5,759,000
Maricopa County, AZ84$4,579,000

IRS migration data tracks where tax filers lived in consecutive years. A "return" is roughly a household; "AGI" is the adjusted gross income that moved with them. Net migration = inflow − outflow. Small county-pair flows are suppressed by the IRS for privacy and shown blank.

Source: IRS SOI Migration Data. License: CC0 1.0.