Who's moving to and from Amherst County, Virginia?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 1,502 people in, 1,303 out. Most were moving between Virginia counties.

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Net change
+199 people
+104 households
Arrivals' income
$55.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$50.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Amherst County's newcomers came from in Virginia

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Virginia counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 7 in 10 already lived in Virginia. People, 2022–23.

  1. Lynchburg city462
  2. Campbell County149
  3. Bedford County91
  4. Nelson County67
  5. Appomattox County48
  6. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)685

Where did people go?

About 8 in 10 who left stayed in Virginia. People, 2022–23.

  1. Lynchburg city341
  2. Campbell County170
  3. Bedford County135
  4. Nelson County67
  5. Appomattox County62
  6. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)528

Some numbers are withheld

County flows may be withheld because of fewer than 20 returns or other IRS disclosure rules. We show these as —. It doesn't mean nobody moved.

Arrived from abroad
withheld
Left for abroad
withheld
Smaller moves to the Midwest
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Amherst usually growing from moves?

It's mixed: more households arrived than left in 5 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+10422–23††‡†
Net migration of Amherst County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−16
2014–15 †−8
2015–16−38
2016–17 †+68
2017–18−10
2018–19 ‡−52
2019–20+147
2020–21+73
2021–22+65
2022–23 †+104

The IRS changed its processing in 2014–15, 2016–17 and 2022–23. Compare years between the dotted lines. ‡ County disclosure-method change in 2018–19: small counts began being deleted rather than reassigned to similar categories. County figures across this break may not be comparable.

Cite this page

Moved Where. “Who's moving to and from Amherst County, Virginia?” movedwhere.com/county/amherst-county-va. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.