The counties the Houston metro takes the most households from, net

the Houston metro · Data as of 2026-10-17 · ALEX Intelligence

Read this carefully: A county appears only where the IRS disclosed the flow in BOTH directions; a one-way disclosure would make a net figure that is really a missing number. 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

Net households, ranked highest first across every U.S. county the IRS disclosed a flow with in BOTH directions against the Houston metro (Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Waller, TX) (384 ranked in total).

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

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https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/countyinflow2223.csv https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/countyoutflow2223.csv

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