US States With the Highest Departures per 100 Staying, $200,000 or More

51 US states ranked by departures per 100 staying, $200,000 or more, from highest to lowest. First are District of Columbia (9.09), New Mexico (4.09) and Hawaii (3.91). The middle one of the 51 has 2.4.

What this measures

People moving out for every hundred who stayed, counting only households reporting $200,000 or more. 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.

Every state

Rank	State	per 100
1	District of Columbia	9.09
2	New Mexico	4.09
3	Hawaii	3.91
4	Nevada	3.8
5	Wyoming	3.44
6	Alaska	3.34
7	Oregon	3.25
8	Delaware	3.15
9	Vermont	3.09
10	Rhode Island	3.09
11	New York	2.97
12	Virginia	2.87
13	Washington	2.83
14	West Virginia	2.81
15	Colorado	2.77
16	Arizona	2.76
17	Montana	2.63
18	Illinois	2.59
19	Maryland	2.56
20	Connecticut	2.52
21	South Carolina	2.51
22	New Hampshire	2.5
23	Maine	2.5
24	Florida	2.49
25	Idaho	2.49
26	Tennessee	2.4
27	New Jersey	2.32
28	Kansas	2.25
29	Massachusetts	2.24
30	North Carolina	2.19
31	Missouri	2.19
32	South Dakota	2.19
33	Mississippi	2.18
34	Kentucky	2.17
35	Arkansas	2.16
36	Utah	2.13
37	Louisiana	2.13
38	Georgia	2.08
39	Pennsylvania	2.06
40	Alabama	1.98
41	Oklahoma	1.97
42	California	1.92
43	Indiana	1.91
44	Minnesota	1.9
45	Ohio	1.87
46	Wisconsin	1.81
47	Nebraska	1.81
48	Texas	1.79
49	Iowa	1.79
50	North Dakota	1.78
51	Michigan	1.77

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