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Burke County, NC

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

Net migration: +227 tax returns · +695 people · +$24,939,000 AGI

Inflow
2,138 returns · 3,975 people · $124,846,000 AGI
Outflow
1,911 returns · 3,280 people · $99,907,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Catawba County, NC403$20,255,000
Caldwell County, NC287$11,542,000
McDowell County, NC169$8,586,000
Mecklenburg County, NC79$5,237,000
Buncombe County, NC66$4,447,000
Lincoln County, NC38$1,534,000
Rutherford County, NC35$1,585,000
Iredell County, NC34$1,941,000
Wake County, NC31$2,378,000
Alexander County, NC30$1,163,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Catawba County, NC421$18,079,000
Caldwell County, NC296$13,694,000
McDowell County, NC92$4,959,000
Mecklenburg County, NC59$5,279,000
Buncombe County, NC57$2,990,000
Wake County, NC45$3,114,000
Lincoln County, NC30$1,421,000
Cleveland County, NC29$903,000
Rutherford County, NC24$1,026,000
Iredell County, NC20$1,627,000

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.