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

51 US states ranked by net migration per 100 staying, $200,000 or more, from highest to lowest. First are South Carolina (3.34), Florida (3.12) and Idaho (2.58). The middle one of the 51 has -0.0765.

What this measures

Households reporting $200,000 or more moving in minus those moving out, for every hundred such households that stayed. Positive means the state gained high earners overall. 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	South Carolina	3.34
2	Florida	3.12
3	Idaho	2.58
4	Montana	1.75
5	Delaware	1.71
6	Maine	1.67
7	Tennessee	1.65
8	North Carolina	1.46
9	Nevada	1.35
10	Vermont	1.25
11	Arizona	1.23
12	New Hampshire	1.15
13	South Dakota	0.849
14	Arkansas	0.753
15	Wyoming	0.605
16	Texas	0.598
17	Utah	0.593
18	Alabama	0.576
19	Georgia	0.479
20	Colorado	0.269
21	Oklahoma	0.25
22	Hawaii	0.247
23	Mississippi	0.185
24	Rhode Island	0.00771
25	Indiana	-0.0527
26	Kentucky	-0.0765
27	Wisconsin	-0.0958
28	Connecticut	-0.182
29	Missouri	-0.237
30	Michigan	-0.244
31	Iowa	-0.285
32	Kansas	-0.342
33	West Virginia	-0.367
34	Virginia	-0.373
35	Ohio	-0.38
36	Nebraska	-0.445
37	New Jersey	-0.453
38	North Dakota	-0.458
39	Pennsylvania	-0.47
40	Washington	-0.57
41	Maryland	-0.636
42	Oregon	-0.65
43	Louisiana	-0.663
44	New Mexico	-0.699
45	Minnesota	-0.711
46	Massachusetts	-0.796
47	California	-0.803
48	Alaska	-1.13
49	Illinois	-1.32
50	New York	-1.41
51	District of Columbia	-4.38

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