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US Counties With the Lowest Income Gap Between Arrivals and Departures

3,087 US counties ranked by income gap between arrivals and departures, from lowest to highest. First are Irion County, TX ($-80,430), La Salle County, TX ($-65,897) and Bowman County, ND ($-61,613). The middle one of the 3,087 has $2,515.

What this measures

How much richer the people moving in are than the people moving out. Positive means the area is trading up in income, whatever happens to its population. A shrinking place can still be trading up. 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 lowest counties

RankCountyUS$
1Irion County, TX$-80,430
2La Salle County, TX$-65,897
3Bowman County, ND$-61,613
4San Francisco County, CA$-56,521
5Wilkes County, GA$-49,848
6North Slope Borough, AK$-47,192
7New York County, NY$-45,052
8Roger Mills County, OK$-42,654
9Potter County, SD$-39,279
10Logan County, KS$-36,992
11Hansford County, TX$-35,223
12Cheyenne County, CO$-35,214
13Glasscock County, TX$-33,553
14Suffolk County, MA$-33,014
15Edmunds County, SD$-32,421
16Cook County, IL$-32,267
17Santa Clara County, CA$-32,073
18District of Columbia, DC$-30,567
19King County, WA$-30,011
20Arlington County, VA$-29,967
21Towner County, ND$-28,946
22Martin County, TX$-28,512
23Cameron Parish, LA$-27,727
24Dunn County, ND$-27,235
25Dillingham Census Area, AK$-26,156
26Pitkin County, CO$-25,496
27Midland County, TX$-24,819
28Stephens County, TX$-24,758
29Nantucket County, MA$-24,466
30Pennington County, MN$-24,305
31Hudson County, NJ$-24,220
32Richmond County, NY$-24,205
33Hand County, SD$-24,022
34Grant County, SD$-23,798
35Multnomah County, OR$-23,787
36Hancock County, OH$-23,618
37Aleutians West Census Area, AK$-23,369
38Hennepin County, MN$-23,339
39Antelope County, NE$-22,859
40Wheatland County, MT$-22,528
41Dawson County, TX$-22,304
42McLean County, IL$-22,145
43Karnes County, TX$-21,772
44Morton County, KS$-21,765
45Roanoke city, VA$-21,748
46Union County, NM$-21,559
47Union County, SD$-21,420
48Montour County, PA$-21,219
49Bethel Census Area, AK$-21,117
50McPherson County, SD$-20,734
51Scurry County, TX$-20,662
52Lander County, NV$-20,381
53Motley County, TX$-19,876
54Fallon County, MT$-19,232
55Middlesex County, MA$-19,172
56Los Alamos County, NM$-19,104
57San Mateo County, CA$-19,093
58Hettinger County, ND$-19,081
59Calumet County, WI$-18,978
60Chugach Census Area, AK$-18,916
61Macon County, IL$-18,738
62Corson County, SD$-18,618
63Edwards County, KS$-18,453
64Eddy County, NM$-18,373
65Crockett County, TX$-18,205
66Grand Isle County, VT$-18,174
67Northwest Arctic Borough, AK$-18,091
68Allegheny County, PA$-18,085
69Pecos County, TX$-18,047
70Dickey County, ND$-17,998
71Garza County, TX$-17,992
72Alleghany County, NC$-17,932
73Glacier County, MT$-17,627
74Meade County, KS$-17,543
75Peoria County, IL$-17,462
76Brown County, NE$-17,099
77Hayes County, NE$-17,040
78Philadelphia County, PA$-16,925
79Ector County, TX$-16,906
80Valley County, MT$-16,821
81Rock Island County, IL$-16,509
82McKenzie County, ND$-16,426
83Kinney County, TX$-16,389
84Union County, PA$-16,352
85Martin County, MN$-16,185
86Lake of the Woods County, MN$-16,098
87Franklin County, OH$-16,058
88Grant County, KS$-16,008
89Baltimore city, MD$-15,813
90Beaver County, PA$-15,730
91Norfolk County, MA$-15,539
92Monongalia County, WV$-15,491
93Jo Daviess County, IL$-15,305
94Swift County, MN$-15,251
95Moultrie County, IL$-15,220
96Colusa County, CA$-15,030
97Bacon County, GA$-14,817
98Mellette County, SD$-14,783
99Milwaukee County, WI$-14,754
100St. Louis city, MO$-14,711

Every state, lowest first

Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.

RankStateUS$
1District of Columbia$-30,567
2Massachusetts$-25,918
3Illinois$-25,648
4Minnesota$-18,642
5New York$-12,360
6Washington$-11,079
7Ohio$-10,793
8North Dakota$-10,131
9Pennsylvania$-9,314
10Alaska$-7,547
11California$-7,522
12Maryland$-7,519
13Oregon$-7,279
14Virginia$-6,937
15Nebraska$-6,560
16Missouri$-5,685
17Kentucky$-5,200
18New Jersey$-4,742
19Louisiana$-4,371
20Michigan$-3,894
21Indiana$-3,448
22Kansas$-3,431
23Iowa$-3,209
24New Mexico$-2,565
25Georgia$-2,254
26Wisconsin$-2,095
27Colorado$-2,006
28West Virginia$-1,959
29Oklahoma$-1,468
30Texas$2,710
31Alabama$2,743
32Rhode Island$2,941
33Mississippi$3,418
34Arkansas$3,660
35Connecticut$3,663
36Utah$5,022
37North Carolina$5,775
38Hawaii$7,251
39Tennessee$9,253
40Vermont$9,982
41South Dakota$10,007
42Wyoming$10,477
43Maine$11,237
44Arizona$11,747
45Delaware$11,869
46Nevada$12,468
47Montana$13,951
48Idaho$16,814
49New Hampshire$20,961
50South Carolina$21,571
51Florida$45,264

More on income gap between arrivals and departures

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