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Buncombe County, NC

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

Net migration: +1,011 tax returns · +1,225 people · +$238,068,000 AGI

Inflow
9,920 returns · 14,867 people · $851,821,000 AGI
Outflow
8,909 returns · 13,642 people · $613,753,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Henderson County, NC703$42,759,000
Mecklenburg County, NC292$30,304,000
Haywood County, NC284$15,803,000
Wake County, NC232$38,517,000
Madison County, NC203$12,352,000
McDowell County, NC146$6,450,000
Greenville County, SC125$8,862,000
Palm Beach County, FL107$9,245,000
Pinellas County, FL104$10,626,000
Cook County, IL101$17,715,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Henderson County, NC1,093$78,190,000
Haywood County, NC475$26,772,000
Madison County, NC328$20,059,000
Mecklenburg County, NC266$18,015,000
McDowell County, NC218$12,852,000
Greenville County, SC187$15,744,000
Wake County, NC181$15,375,000
Spartanburg County, SC149$8,947,000
Rutherford County, NC111$6,184,000
Transylvania County, NC99$6,403,000

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.