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District of Columbia, DC

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

Net migration: +1,366 tax returns · -3,043 people · $-864,115,000 AGI

Inflow
33,508 returns · 42,408 people · $2,903,772,000 AGI
Outflow
32,142 returns · 45,451 people · $3,767,887,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Prince George's County, MD3,479$166,396,000
Montgomery County, MD2,420$261,765,000
Arlington County, VA1,789$198,959,000
Fairfax County, VA1,177$139,957,000
New York County, NY750$120,687,000
Alexandria city, VA605$56,761,000
Cook County, IL565$55,664,000
Los Angeles County, CA522$49,452,000
Middlesex County, MA467$39,333,000
Kings County, NY454$54,987,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Prince George's County, MD4,089$236,692,000
Montgomery County, MD3,120$477,946,000
Arlington County, VA2,000$262,719,000
Fairfax County, VA1,662$245,271,000
Alexandria city, VA1,232$166,522,000
New York County, NY1,210$150,619,000
Kings County, NY727$81,039,000
Los Angeles County, CA563$61,727,000
Cook County, IL526$54,554,000
Baltimore city, MD516$46,975,000

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.