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Whitley County, KY

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

Net migration: -62 tax returns · +22 people · +$3,796,000 AGI

Inflow
833 returns · 1,719 people · $38,521,000 AGI
Outflow
895 returns · 1,697 people · $34,725,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Laurel County, KY210$10,029,000
Knox County, KY176$6,231,000
Madison County, KY21$959,000
Fayette County, KY21$952,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Laurel County, KY288$12,187,000
Knox County, KY153$4,928,000
Campbell County, TN40$1,250,000
Fayette County, KY38$1,625,000
Madison County, KY30$1,418,000
McCreary County, KY22$650,000

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.