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

51 US states ranked by departures per 100 staying, $200,000 or more, from lowest to highest. First are Michigan (1.77), North Dakota (1.78) and Iowa (1.79). 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	Michigan	1.77
2	North Dakota	1.78
3	Iowa	1.79
4	Texas	1.79
5	Nebraska	1.81
6	Wisconsin	1.81
7	Ohio	1.87
8	Minnesota	1.9
9	Indiana	1.91
10	California	1.92
11	Oklahoma	1.97
12	Alabama	1.98
13	Pennsylvania	2.06
14	Georgia	2.08
15	Louisiana	2.13
16	Utah	2.13
17	Arkansas	2.16
18	Kentucky	2.17
19	Mississippi	2.18
20	South Dakota	2.19
21	Missouri	2.19
22	North Carolina	2.19
23	Massachusetts	2.24
24	Kansas	2.25
25	New Jersey	2.32
26	Tennessee	2.4
27	Idaho	2.49
28	Florida	2.49
29	Maine	2.5
30	New Hampshire	2.5
31	South Carolina	2.51
32	Connecticut	2.52
33	Maryland	2.56
34	Illinois	2.59
35	Montana	2.63
36	Arizona	2.76
37	Colorado	2.77
38	West Virginia	2.81
39	Washington	2.83
40	Virginia	2.87
41	New York	2.97
42	Rhode Island	3.09
43	Vermont	3.09
44	Delaware	3.15
45	Oregon	3.25
46	Alaska	3.34
47	Wyoming	3.44
48	Nevada	3.8
49	Hawaii	3.91
50	New Mexico	4.09
51	District of Columbia	9.09

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