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Harris County, TX

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

Net migration: -7,225 tax returns · -21,215 people · $-1,388,875,000 AGI

Inflow
94,726 returns · 164,963 people · $7,100,533,000 AGI
Outflow
101,951 returns · 186,178 people · $8,489,408,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Fort Bend County, TX11,572$900,678,000
Montgomery County, TX7,410$553,451,000
Brazoria County, TX3,625$241,929,000
Galveston County, TX3,559$269,184,000
Travis County, TX2,367$207,773,000
Dallas County, TX2,023$156,202,000
Bexar County, TX1,798$115,130,000
Los Angeles County, CA1,647$123,779,000
Tarrant County, TX1,223$78,309,000
Jefferson County, TX1,126$62,854,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Fort Bend County, TX14,433$1,012,676,000
Montgomery County, TX12,733$1,110,985,000
Brazoria County, TX5,157$340,704,000
Galveston County, TX4,440$367,048,000
Travis County, TX3,073$430,686,000
Liberty County, TX2,419$117,002,000
Dallas County, TX2,164$197,844,000
Bexar County, TX1,766$115,434,000
Tarrant County, TX1,396$101,551,000
Chambers County, TX1,137$87,650,000

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.