How much faster the top bracket arrives than everyone else
How much faster high earners arrive than everyone else. It is the net moving rate for households with $200,000 or more, minus the net rate for all households. Positive means a state gains high earners faster than it gains people in general, which is different from gaining people at all. Florida does both. Vermont only does the first.
Reported for51states — none in PR
Link to density0.09not mostly about how urban a place is
Nearby places alike—not worked out for states: the map data here has no location points to measure distances between states
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How it has moved
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Every state, every year
One row per state and one column per year, sorted by the latest value. It shows states, not counties: nobody can scan 3,222 rows, and the pattern only shows when it all fits on one screen.
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Where it comes from
IRS county migration flows · IRS SOI gross migration, AGI class 7
The top income group's net migration rate minus the rate for all income groups, both from the same file. Positive means a state is gaining high earners faster than it is gaining people in general. That is a different question from whether it is gaining people at all. It is usually the question people mean when they argue about taxes and moving. From the IRS Gross Migration file. It splits moves by the size of adjusted gross income on the second year's tax return. It is published for states only, since the IRS does not split counties by income. This file leaves out returns with an income below zero. So its totals differ slightly from the state-to-state files the other migration measures come from.
Combining areas: an average weighted by people in households earning $200,000 or more who did not move.
Population makeup
How this measure varies with the racial and ethnic makeup of states. Every group is shown, whatever its rank. These are links across states: they describe places, not people. They say nothing about any person’s risk or behaviour based on their race. States with a larger share of one group also differ in much else, such as income, segregation, region and history. The adjusted figure only accounts for density, income and education.
| Share of residents | Unadjusted | Adjusted |
|---|---|---|
| Share White, not HispanicCould easily be chance once only places with similar density, income and education are compared. | +0.17 | +0.11 |
| Share Black, not HispanicCould easily be chance once only places with similar density, income and education are compared. | -0.27 | -0.19 |
| Share Hispanic or Latino, any raceCould easily be chance once only places with similar density, income and education are compared. | -0.00 | +0.03 |
| Share Asian, not HispanicCould easily be chance once only places with similar density, income and education are compared. | -0.02 | +0.01 |
| Share American Indian or Alaska Native, not HispanicCould easily be chance once only places with similar density, income and education are compared. | -0.04 | -0.26 |
Highest and lowest
Of 51 states reporting it. These are the two ends of a national ranking. For most measures, that ranking mostly sorts places by income and how urban they are. That is why the place pages compare each place with similar places instead.
Highest
- Florida — 2.41
- South Carolina — 1.82
- Idaho — 1.74
- Vermont — 1.24
- Montana — 1.14
Lowest
- District of Columbia — -3.7
- Illinois — -0.761
- West Virginia — -0.607
- New Mexico — -0.601
- Washington — -0.538
The middle state reports -0.114. The middle half of states falls between -0.313 and 0.563 (the 25th to 75th percentile).
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