US Counties With the Highest People Who Did Not Move
3,141 US counties ranked by people who did not move, from highest to lowest. First are Glasscock County, TX (1120.56), Garfield County, MT (1057.57) and Presidio County, TX (1029.12). The middle one of the 3,141 has 759.27.
What this measures
Tax filers who filed from the same address in both years. Source: IRS county migration flows.
This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest counties.
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 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nebraska | 816.87 |
| 2 | Utah | 815.11 |
| 3 | South Dakota | 813.02 |
| 4 | Minnesota | 812.20 |
| 5 | Wisconsin | 812.06 |
| 6 | New Hampshire | 808.24 |
| 7 | Wyoming | 801.00 |
| 8 | Idaho | 798.82 |
| 9 | Vermont | 792.65 |
| 10 | Iowa | 788.97 |
| 11 | Connecticut | 788.08 |
| 12 | New Jersey | 787.99 |
| 13 | Indiana | 787.74 |
| 14 | Maine | 786.05 |
| 15 | North Dakota | 785.58 |
| 16 | Washington | 781.88 |
| 17 | Kansas | 781.46 |
| 18 | Montana | 780.57 |
| 19 | Pennsylvania | 778.96 |
| 20 | Illinois | 778.22 |
| 21 | Ohio | 777.11 |
| 22 | Delaware | 773.43 |
| 23 | Michigan | 772.42 |
| 24 | California | 769.95 |
| 25 | Nevada | 768.51 |
| 26 | Colorado | 767.61 |
| 27 | Massachusetts | 765.83 |
| 28 | Texas | 763.62 |
| 29 | Rhode Island | 760.67 |
| 30 | Maryland | 758.47 |
| 31 | Tennessee | 754.64 |
| 32 | Hawaii | 754.54 |
| 33 | Missouri | 753.63 |
| 34 | Virginia | 750.89 |
| 35 | New York | 750.79 |
| 36 | Arizona | 749.75 |
| 37 | South Carolina | 746.19 |
| 38 | Alaska | 744.13 |
| 39 | Florida | 743.49 |
| 40 | Oregon | 743.01 |
| 41 | North Carolina | 742.26 |
| 42 | Kentucky | 731.92 |
| 43 | West Virginia | 727.95 |
| 44 | New Mexico | 727.55 |
| 45 | Arkansas | 718.35 |
| 46 | Oklahoma | 715.72 |
| 47 | Georgia | 714.29 |
| 48 | Mississippi | 707.65 |
| 49 | Alabama | 702.38 |
| 50 | Louisiana | 693.76 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 649.52 |
More on people who did not move
- US Counties With the Lowest People Who Did Not Move
- People who did not move 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.