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Cottonwood County, MN

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

Net migration: -5 tax returns · +29 people · +$729,000 AGI

Inflow
317 returns · 547 people · $15,670,000 AGI
Outflow
322 returns · 518 people · $14,941,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Nicollet County, MN62$2,845,000
Jackson County, MN31$1,483,000
Watonwan County, MN24$1,124,000
Nobles County, MN20$1,147,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Jackson County, MN37$1,848,000
Minnehaha County, SD24$1,077,000
Nobles County, MN20$664,000

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.