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Buena Vista County, IA

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

Net migration: -141 tax returns · -205 people · $-7,267,000 AGI

Inflow
476 returns · 887 people · $20,854,000 AGI
Outflow
617 returns · 1,092 people · $28,121,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Clay County, IA36$1,559,000
Cherokee County, IA31$1,650,000
Sac County, IA29$1,442,000
Pocahontas County, IA27$1,604,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Cherokee County, IA46$2,516,000
Sac County, IA39$1,703,000
Woodbury County, IA33$1,473,000
Polk County, IA31$1,949,000
Clay County, IA21$986,000

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.