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Covington County, MS

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

Net migration: -22 tax returns · -17 people · $-724,000 AGI

Inflow
391 returns · 792 people · $15,861,000 AGI
Outflow
413 returns · 809 people · $16,585,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Lamar County, MS58$3,042,000
Jones County, MS50$1,913,000
Simpson County, MS40$1,256,000
Forrest County, MS37$1,751,000
Smith County, MS35$1,284,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Forrest County, MS67$2,009,000
Lamar County, MS62$2,412,000
Jones County, MS44$1,689,000
Simpson County, MS36$1,201,000
Smith County, MS32$1,286,000
Jefferson Davis County, MS24$1,075,000

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.