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McDowell County, NC

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

Net migration: +76 tax returns · +132 people · +$17,088,000 AGI

Inflow
1,033 returns · 1,784 people · $65,731,000 AGI
Outflow
957 returns · 1,652 people · $48,643,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Buncombe County, NC218$12,852,000
Burke County, NC92$4,959,000
Rutherford County, NC31$2,005,000
Henderson County, NC27$1,052,000
Mitchell County, NC26$1,080,000
Catawba County, NC26$1,540,000
Mecklenburg County, NC23$3,567,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Burke County, NC169$8,586,000
Buncombe County, NC146$6,450,000
Rutherford County, NC58$2,472,000
Mitchell County, NC32$2,108,000
Catawba County, NC24$1,199,000
Henderson County, NC23$1,534,000

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.