The counties sending the Houston metro its highest-earning arrivals
the Houston metro · Data as of
· ALEX Intelligence
$387,809Average Income of Arriving Households — Contra Costa County, CA
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County
Average income of arriving households
1
Contra Costa County, CA
$387,809
2
Western Connecticut Planning Regi, CT
$354,671
3
King County, WA
$214,529
4
Somerset County, NJ
$197,732
5
San Mateo County, CA
$182,453
6
New York County, NY
$176,767
7
Arlington County, VA
$171,158
8
Denver County, CO
$167,575
9
Douglas County, CO
$164,306
10
Midland County, TX
$160,564
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 Houston metro (Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Waller, TX)
(251 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.
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