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Essex County, MA

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

Net migration: -1,940 tax returns · -2,725 people · $-122,453,000 AGI

Inflow
16,251 returns · 25,072 people · $1,704,549,000 AGI
Outflow
18,191 returns · 27,797 people · $1,827,002,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Middlesex County, MA4,847$628,862,000
Suffolk County, MA2,693$317,422,000
Rockingham County, NH867$68,472,000
Norfolk County, MA505$55,525,000
Hillsborough County, NH422$37,259,000
Worcester County, MA375$26,980,000
Bronx County, NY166$4,653,000
Plymouth County, MA161$13,082,000
New York County, NY157$15,092,000
Bristol County, MA154$11,223,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Middlesex County, MA4,184$333,630,000
Suffolk County, MA1,949$183,158,000
Rockingham County, NH1,672$197,701,000
Hillsborough County, NH659$49,401,000
Worcester County, MA578$39,908,000
Norfolk County, MA455$43,269,000
New York County, NY236$21,295,000
Plymouth County, MA229$21,493,000
Strafford County, NH225$15,865,000
York County, ME190$21,410,000

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.