Who's moving to and from Anchorage Municipality, Alaska?

More left than arrived in 2022–23: 13,578 people in, 16,009 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they went ↓
Net change
−2,431 people
−748 households
Arrivals' income
$64.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$75.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where people leaving Anchorage Municipality went in Alaska

Orange lines show departures · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Alaska counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Maricopa County, AZ, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 7 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Matanuska-Susitna Borough1,152
  2. Fairbanks North Star Borough462
  3. Kenai Peninsula Borough406
  4. Bethel Census Area262
  5. Maricopa County, AZ223
  6. Honolulu County, HI201
  7. Pierce County, WA176
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)6,763

Where did people go?

About 8 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Matanuska-Susitna Borough1,951
  2. Maricopa County, AZ464
  3. Kenai Peninsula Borough404
  4. Clark County, NV289
  5. King County, WA287
  6. Fairbanks North Star Borough273
  7. Bexar County, TX245
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)7,476

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
506 people
Left for abroad
447 people
Net moves with Kusilvak Census Area
withheld
Net moves with North Slope Borough
withheld
Net moves with Northwest Arctic Borough
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Anchorage usually growing from moves?

No. More households have left than arrived every year since 2013–14.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−74822–23††‡†
Net migration of Anchorage Municipality (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−1,633
2014–15 †−620
2015–16−1,899
2016–17 †−4,183
2017–18−2,453
2018–19 ‡−1,564
2019–20−1,988
2020–21−1,787
2021–22−1,282
2022–23 †−748

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 Anchorage Municipality, Alaska?” movedwhere.com/county/anchorage-municipality-ak. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.