Colorado vs Texas: which way are people moving?

Name: Colorado vs Texas: which way are people moving?
Creator: Moved Where

Toward Colorado. In 2022–23, 3,499 more people moved from Texas to Colorado than the other way.

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Texas → Colorado25,282 people

Arrivals' income: $88.9k avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Colorado → Texas21,783 people

Leavers' income: $88.7k avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Texas is Colorado's biggest moving partner in both directions: 47,065 people moved between the two, one way or the other.

Has it always been this way?

Yes. More households have moved to Colorado than to Texas every year since 2013–14.

Net between the two · households (tax returns)

Net moves between Colorado and Texas (Net between the two · households (tax returns))
Year	Value
2013–14	+255
2014–15 †	+1,036
2015–16	+2,175
2016–17 †	+3,194
2017–18	+2,540
2018–19	+1,428
2019–20	+837
2020–21	+294
2021–22	+923
2022–23 †	+2,648

IRS processing changes in 2014–15, 2016–17 and 2022–23.

The two states overall

Colorado

Net change, all states: +7,288
Moved in · moved out: 187,420 · 180,132
Arrivals' income · leavers' income (reported on the second-year tax return): $82.5k · $84.5k

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Texas

Net change, all states: +112,481
Moved in · moved out: 553,369 · 440,888
Arrivals' income · leavers' income (reported on the second-year tax return): $83.6k · $80.4k

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People, 2022–23, moves between states.

Every year, in full

Moves between Texas and Colorado, 2013–14 to 2022–23. Tap a column to sort.

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	People			Households		Avg income per household (income reported on the second-year tax return)
2013–14	19,130	19,432	−302	9,517	9,262	$67.8k	$66.6k
2014–15 †	14,537	13,360	+1,177	7,677	6,641	$63.2k	$69.8k
2015–16	21,605	18,768	+2,837	11,178	9,003	$72.3k	$70.6k
2016–17 †	31,802	27,186	+4,616	16,116	12,922	$74.9k	$67.6k
2017–18	24,492	20,334	+4,158	12,769	10,229	$80.0k	$70.7k
2018–19	22,297	20,588	+1,709	11,996	10,568	$83.2k	$72.6k
2019–20	24,116	23,728	+388	12,726	11,889	$86.3k	$75.5k
2020–21	23,882	25,021	−1,139	13,456	13,162	$83.0k	$80.8k
2021–22	25,224	25,101	+123	14,499	13,576	$100.0k	$85.1k
2022–23 †	25,282	21,783	+3,499	14,923	12,275	$88.9k	$88.7k

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Moved Where. “Colorado vs Texas: which way are people moving?” movedwhere.com/compare/colorado-vs-texas. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.