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

51 US states ranked by net migration per 100 staying, $200,000 or more, from lowest to highest. First are District of Columbia (-4.38), New York (-1.41) and Illinois (-1.32). 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	District of Columbia	-4.38
2	New York	-1.41
3	Illinois	-1.32
4	Alaska	-1.13
5	California	-0.803
6	Massachusetts	-0.796
7	Minnesota	-0.711
8	New Mexico	-0.699
9	Louisiana	-0.663
10	Oregon	-0.65
11	Maryland	-0.636
12	Washington	-0.57
13	Pennsylvania	-0.47
14	North Dakota	-0.458
15	New Jersey	-0.453
16	Nebraska	-0.445
17	Ohio	-0.38
18	Virginia	-0.373
19	West Virginia	-0.367
20	Kansas	-0.342
21	Iowa	-0.285
22	Michigan	-0.244
23	Missouri	-0.237
24	Connecticut	-0.182
25	Wisconsin	-0.0958
26	Kentucky	-0.0765
27	Indiana	-0.0527
28	Rhode Island	0.00771
29	Mississippi	0.185
30	Hawaii	0.247
31	Oklahoma	0.25
32	Colorado	0.269
33	Georgia	0.479
34	Alabama	0.576
35	Utah	0.593
36	Texas	0.598
37	Wyoming	0.605
38	Arkansas	0.753
39	South Dakota	0.849
40	New Hampshire	1.15
41	Arizona	1.23
42	Vermont	1.25
43	Nevada	1.35
44	North Carolina	1.46
45	Tennessee	1.65
46	Maine	1.67
47	Delaware	1.71
48	Montana	1.75
49	Idaho	2.58
50	Florida	3.12
51	South Carolina	3.34

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