Who's moving to and from Bay County, Florida?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 13,785 people in, 9,724 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+4,061 people
+2,129 households
Arrivals' income
$74.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$61.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Bay County's newcomers came from in Florida

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Florida counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Houston County, AL, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Walton County469
  2. Okaloosa County430
  3. Washington County342
  4. Leon County270
  5. Gulf County196
  6. Jackson County189
  7. Escambia County180
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)7,294

Where did people go?

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

  1. Washington County459
  2. Walton County310
  3. Jackson County242
  4. Okaloosa County235
  5. Leon County194
  6. Gulf County176
  7. Hillsborough County151
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)5,230

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
299 people
Left for abroad
187 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Bay 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+2,12922–23††‡†
Net migration of Bay County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+861
2014–15 †+553
2015–16+411
2016–17 †+173
2017–18−1,427
2018–19 ‡−3,301
2019–20+629
2020–21+1,938
2021–22+1,898
2022–23 †+2,129

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.

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Moved Where. “Who's moving to and from Bay County, Florida?” movedwhere.com/county/bay-county-fl. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.