US Counties With the Highest Arrivals per 100 People Staying
3,096 US counties ranked by arrivals per 100 people staying, from highest to lowest. First are Chattahoochee County, GA (46.3), Williamsburg city, VA (24.5) and Geary County, KS (24). The middle one of the 3,096 has 5.91.
What this measures
Tax filers who moved in, for every hundred who stayed put. Source: IRS county migration flows.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | per 100 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 9.71 |
| 2 | Alaska | 4.87 |
| 3 | Wyoming | 4.8 |
| 4 | Nevada | 4.69 |
| 5 | Delaware | 4.66 |
| 6 | South Carolina | 4.64 |
| 7 | Idaho | 4.42 |
| 8 | Hawaii | 4.41 |
| 9 | Colorado | 4.29 |
| 10 | Montana | 4.13 |
| 11 | North Dakota | 3.86 |
| 12 | North Carolina | 3.84 |
| 13 | Florida | 3.82 |
| 14 | Tennessee | 3.8 |
| 15 | Arizona | 3.77 |
| 16 | Virginia | 3.73 |
| 17 | South Dakota | 3.73 |
| 18 | New Hampshire | 3.7 |
| 19 | Georgia | 3.5 |
| 20 | New Mexico | 3.47 |
| 21 | Vermont | 3.36 |
| 22 | Rhode Island | 3.3 |
| 23 | Washington | 3.28 |
| 24 | Oregon | 3.17 |
| 25 | Arkansas | 3.17 |
| 26 | Kansas | 3.13 |
| 27 | Oklahoma | 3.04 |
| 28 | Utah | 3 |
| 29 | Maryland | 2.97 |
| 30 | Maine | 2.97 |
| 31 | Alabama | 2.95 |
| 32 | West Virginia | 2.83 |
| 33 | Connecticut | 2.77 |
| 34 | Mississippi | 2.74 |
| 35 | Missouri | 2.72 |
| 36 | Kentucky | 2.65 |
| 37 | Texas | 2.51 |
| 38 | New Jersey | 2.43 |
| 39 | Nebraska | 2.42 |
| 40 | Iowa | 2.29 |
| 41 | Indiana | 2.28 |
| 42 | Massachusetts | 2.24 |
| 43 | Louisiana | 2.09 |
| 44 | Pennsylvania | 2.01 |
| 45 | Wisconsin | 1.91 |
| 46 | Minnesota | 1.86 |
| 47 | Illinois | 1.86 |
| 48 | New York | 1.85 |
| 49 | Ohio | 1.72 |
| 50 | Michigan | 1.57 |
| 51 | California | 1.35 |
More on arrivals per 100 people staying
- US Counties With the Lowest Arrivals per 100 People Staying
- Arrivals per 100 people staying by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.