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Mercer County, WV

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

Net migration: -159 tax returns · -283 people · $-5,978,000 AGI

Inflow
905 returns · 1,631 people · $38,580,000 AGI
Outflow
1,064 returns · 1,914 people · $44,558,000 AGI

Top origins (where new residents came from)

CountyReturnsAGI
Tazewell County, VA122$5,201,000
McDowell County, WV64$3,010,000
Raleigh County, WV57$3,352,000
Giles County, VA34$1,048,000
Summers County, WV24$793,000

Top destinations (where leavers went)

CountyReturnsAGI
Tazewell County, VA123$5,611,000
McDowell County, WV63$1,616,000
Raleigh County, WV59$2,322,000
Monroe County, WV35$1,555,000
Summers County, WV34$1,526,000
Kanawha County, WV34$1,171,000
Giles County, VA26$901,000

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.