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Watauga County, NC

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

Net migration: -233 tax returns · -291 people · +$17,719,000 AGI

Inflow
1,678 returns · 2,520 people · $127,215,000 AGI
Outflow
1,911 returns · 2,811 people · $109,496,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Wake County, NC109$7,089,000
Mecklenburg County, NC97$10,477,000
Ashe County, NC77$4,550,000
Avery County, NC69$3,709,000
Forsyth County, NC41$2,891,000
Buncombe County, NC40$1,530,000
Catawba County, NC37$1,857,000
Guilford County, NC34$2,043,000
Wilkes County, NC30$1,895,000
Caldwell County, NC29$1,358,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Ashe County, NC121$7,012,000
Mecklenburg County, NC117$5,975,000
Wake County, NC108$4,805,000
Buncombe County, NC76$3,299,000
Avery County, NC66$3,338,000
Caldwell County, NC65$4,040,000
Guilford County, NC49$1,685,000
Forsyth County, NC45$2,646,000
Catawba County, NC42$3,109,000
Johnson County, TN37$2,152,000

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.