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Avery County, NC

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

Net migration: +22 tax returns · +72 people · $-832,000 AGI

Inflow
485 returns · 837 people · $44,903,000 AGI
Outflow
463 returns · 765 people · $45,735,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Watauga County, NC66$3,338,000
Mitchell County, NC32$1,377,000
Mecklenburg County, NC20$6,343,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Watauga County, NC69$3,709,000
Mitchell County, NC34$2,402,000
Carter County, TN29$1,457,000

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.