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Laurel County, KY

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

Net migration: +174 tax returns · +384 people · +$9,031,000 AGI

Inflow
1,507 returns · 2,907 people · $66,031,000 AGI
Outflow
1,333 returns · 2,523 people · $57,000,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Whitley County, KY288$12,187,000
Knox County, KY198$6,999,000
Clay County, KY118$5,865,000
Jackson County, KY64$1,760,000
Madison County, KY56$2,606,000
Pulaski County, KY48$1,569,000
Fayette County, KY42$1,955,000
Bell County, KY28$1,078,000
Rockcastle County, KY27$976,000
Perry County, KY27$2,254,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Knox County, KY213$6,917,000
Whitley County, KY210$10,029,000
Madison County, KY86$3,663,000
Clay County, KY84$2,845,000
Pulaski County, KY54$2,452,000
Jackson County, KY48$2,036,000
Fayette County, KY48$2,349,000
Rockcastle County, KY29$927,000

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.