US Counties With the Lowest Net Migration per 100 People Staying
3,087 US counties ranked by net migration per 100 people staying, from lowest to highest. First are Aleutians East Borough, AK (-8.87), Alpine County, CA (-7.35) and Deuel County, NE (-5.38). The middle one of the 3,087 has 0.19.
What this measures
People moving in minus people moving out, for every hundred who stayed. Positive means the area gained filers. It says nothing about how many moved each way. 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
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | per 100 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | -1.1 |
| 2 | Alaska | -0.731 |
| 3 | District of Columbia | -0.697 |
| 4 | California | -0.692 |
| 5 | Hawaii | -0.59 |
| 6 | Massachusetts | -0.569 |
| 7 | Illinois | -0.563 |
| 8 | Louisiana | -0.543 |
| 9 | Maryland | -0.446 |
| 10 | New Jersey | -0.441 |
| 11 | Connecticut | -0.193 |
| 12 | Oregon | -0.179 |
| 13 | Kansas | -0.177 |
| 14 | Minnesota | -0.175 |
| 15 | Pennsylvania | -0.158 |
| 16 | Mississippi | -0.149 |
| 17 | Rhode Island | -0.141 |
| 18 | Michigan | -0.121 |
| 19 | Nebraska | -0.115 |
| 20 | North Dakota | -0.11 |
| 21 | New Mexico | -0.098 |
| 22 | Ohio | -0.0755 |
| 23 | Iowa | -0.061 |
| 24 | Washington | -0.0385 |
| 25 | Vermont | 0.00528 |
| 26 | Virginia | 0.0198 |
| 27 | Utah | 0.0383 |
| 28 | Wisconsin | 0.0493 |
| 29 | Wyoming | 0.0726 |
| 30 | Indiana | 0.0814 |
| 31 | Colorado | 0.158 |
| 32 | Kentucky | 0.177 |
| 33 | Missouri | 0.188 |
| 34 | West Virginia | 0.239 |
| 35 | South Dakota | 0.331 |
| 36 | New Hampshire | 0.361 |
| 37 | Oklahoma | 0.438 |
| 38 | Georgia | 0.454 |
| 39 | Alabama | 0.463 |
| 40 | Nevada | 0.485 |
| 41 | Arizona | 0.489 |
| 42 | Texas | 0.492 |
| 43 | Arkansas | 0.516 |
| 44 | Maine | 0.59 |
| 45 | Montana | 0.61 |
| 46 | Florida | 0.699 |
| 47 | Tennessee | 0.811 |
| 48 | Idaho | 0.842 |
| 49 | North Carolina | 0.884 |
| 50 | Delaware | 0.994 |
| 51 | South Carolina | 1.52 |
More on net migration per 100 people staying
- US Counties With the Highest Net Migration per 100 People Staying
- Net migration per 100 people staying 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.