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Catawba County, NC

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

Net migration: +761 tax returns · +1,564 people · +$80,575,000 AGI

Inflow
4,965 returns · 8,704 people · $322,825,000 AGI
Outflow
4,204 returns · 7,140 people · $242,250,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Lincoln County, NC509$36,813,000
Mecklenburg County, NC422$30,319,000
Burke County, NC421$18,079,000
Caldwell County, NC359$18,833,000
Iredell County, NC355$21,338,000
Alexander County, NC230$12,215,000
Gaston County, NC141$7,069,000
Wake County, NC72$6,803,000
Cabarrus County, NC66$5,209,000
Forsyth County, NC49$3,310,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Burke County, NC403$20,255,000
Lincoln County, NC385$23,630,000
Caldwell County, NC369$19,578,000
Mecklenburg County, NC294$19,862,000
Iredell County, NC292$17,275,000
Alexander County, NC205$12,608,000
Gaston County, NC121$5,394,000
Wake County, NC81$5,828,000
Forsyth County, NC61$3,531,000
Guilford County, NC49$2,475,000

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.