Households arriving in the Midlands earn less than the ones leaving

the Midlands · Data as of · ALEX Intelligence

5.3% Income Gap Between Arriving and Departing Households — the Midlands
#CountyAverage income of arriving households
1Fairfax County, VA$104,060
2Fulton County, GA$88,170
3San Diego County, CA$80,475
4Suffolk County, NY$74,462
5Nassau County, NY$73,321
6Maricopa County, AZ$73,097
7Columbia County, GA$71,942
8Harris County, TX$71,475
9Duval County, FL$70,787
10El Paso County, TX$69,274

Read this carefully: The IRS withholds county-to-county flows below its disclosure threshold, so a county missing from this table is one whose flow was too small to publish, not one nobody moved from. Every total here is a total of disclosed flows and is therefore a floor.

Methodology

Source:
U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Migration Data, county-to-county inflows, 2022-23
Measure
Average income of arriving households, ranked highest first across every U.S. county the IRS recorded sending households to the Midlands (Calhoun, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lexington, Richland, Saluda, SC) (56 ranked in total).
How the headline figure is computed
Mean adjusted gross income per arriving household ($54,697) against mean adjusted gross income per departing household ($57,743), both from the 2022-23 vintage. IRS reports income in thousands of dollars; these are dollars.
Universe
Every U.S. county the IRS disclosed a flow with. Counties whose flow fell below the IRS disclosure threshold are absent from the source file altogether, so this ranking is of disclosed flows and its totals are a floor rather than a complete count of movers.
Vintage
2023
Reproduce this query
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/countyinflow2223.csv https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/countyoutflow2223.csv

Every figure on this page is computed directly from the dataset named above by ALEX Intelligence. No figure on this page was written by hand or by a language model. The query is stated so that anyone can re-run it and obtain the same table.

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