Who's moving to and from Barnstable County, Massachusetts?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 9,646 people in, 9,439 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+207 people
−301 households
Arrivals' income
$147.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$113.0k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Barnstable County's newcomers came from in Massachusetts

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Massachusetts counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Collier County, FL, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 5 in 10 already lived in Massachusetts. People, 2022–23.

  1. Middlesex County1,109
  2. Norfolk County949
  3. Plymouth County864
  4. Suffolk County560
  5. Worcester County501
  6. Bristol County488
  7. Essex County214
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)2,647

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Plymouth County1,264
  2. Middlesex County576
  3. Suffolk County523
  4. Norfolk County512
  5. Bristol County464
  6. Worcester County286
  7. Collier County, FL187
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)3,178

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
89 people
Left for abroad
93 people
Net moves with Hampden County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Barnstable usually growing from moves?

Mostly. More households arrived than left in 8 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−30122–23††‡†
Net migration of Barnstable County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+451
2014–15 †−609
2015–16+311
2016–17 †+1,414
2017–18+592
2018–19 ‡+128
2019–20+2,328
2020–21+1,757
2021–22+115
2022–23 †−301

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 Barnstable County, Massachusetts?” movedwhere.com/county/barnstable-county-ma. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.