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Alexander County, NC

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

Net migration: +99 tax returns · +174 people · +$12,123,000 AGI

Inflow
832 returns · 1,488 people · $48,698,000 AGI
Outflow
733 returns · 1,314 people · $36,575,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Catawba County, NC205$12,608,000
Iredell County, NC139$7,438,000
Caldwell County, NC77$3,343,000
Mecklenburg County, NC38$2,046,000
Wilkes County, NC24$1,164,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Catawba County, NC230$12,215,000
Iredell County, NC112$6,478,000
Caldwell County, NC73$3,354,000
Burke County, NC30$1,163,000
Wilkes County, NC27$1,041,000

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.