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Wilkes County, NC

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

Net migration: +110 tax returns · +355 people · +$17,961,000 AGI

Inflow
1,088 returns · 2,042 people · $68,060,000 AGI
Outflow
978 returns · 1,687 people · $50,099,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Surry County, NC106$5,597,000
Yadkin County, NC62$2,488,000
Iredell County, NC48$3,920,000
Forsyth County, NC46$2,981,000
Mecklenburg County, NC38$3,063,000
Ashe County, NC38$1,715,000
Watauga County, NC37$1,940,000
Catawba County, NC34$1,524,000
Guilford County, NC30$1,821,000
Alexander County, NC27$1,041,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Surry County, NC104$5,539,000
Yadkin County, NC74$3,228,000
Forsyth County, NC55$4,538,000
Iredell County, NC40$2,035,000
Mecklenburg County, NC35$2,381,000
Ashe County, NC35$1,651,000
Caldwell County, NC32$1,157,000
Watauga County, NC30$1,895,000
Alexander County, NC24$1,164,000
Catawba County, NC23$880,000

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.