Households arriving in the Charleston tri-county earn more than the ones leaving

the Charleston tri-county · Data as of · ALEX Intelligence

43.4% Income Gap Between Arriving and Departing Households — the Charleston tri-county
#CountyAverage income of arriving households
1New York County, NY$364,503
2Middlesex County, MA$303,440
3Fulton County, GA$287,686
4Suffolk County, MA$269,308
5Mecklenburg County, NC$266,891
6Arlington County, VA$227,138
7Miami-Dade County, FL$208,887
8Western Connecticut Planning Regi, CT$195,369
9Westchester County, NY$193,585
10Montgomery County, MD$187,598

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 Charleston tri-county (Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester, SC) (89 ranked in total).
How the headline figure is computed
Mean adjusted gross income per arriving household ($109,800) against mean adjusted gross income per departing household ($76,555), 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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