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Gaines County, TX

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

Net migration: -55 tax returns · -23 people · $-6,156,000 AGI

Inflow
399 returns · 938 people · $21,766,000 AGI
Outflow
454 returns · 961 people · $27,922,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Yoakum County, TX55$3,081,000
Lea County, NM44$4,374,000
Lubbock County, TX43$1,556,000
Terry County, TX22$745,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Lubbock County, TX70$4,229,000
Lea County, NM46$2,605,000
Yoakum County, TX40$1,978,000
Terry County, TX25$888,000
Midland County, TX24$2,300,000

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.