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Columbus County, NC

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

Net migration: -7 tax returns · +107 people · +$4,183,000 AGI

Inflow
928 returns · 1,787 people · $42,148,000 AGI
Outflow
935 returns · 1,680 people · $37,965,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Brunswick County, NC148$7,448,000
Horry County, SC109$4,394,000
New Hanover County, NC71$2,969,000
Bladen County, NC64$4,074,000
Robeson County, NC42$1,060,000
Cumberland County, NC38$1,631,000
Wake County, NC30$1,813,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Horry County, SC133$4,979,000
Brunswick County, NC115$6,914,000
Bladen County, NC85$3,402,000
Robeson County, NC64$2,081,000
New Hanover County, NC60$2,402,000
Wake County, NC36$2,277,000
Cumberland County, NC35$1,029,000
Guilford County, NC24$897,000

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.