Who's moving to and from Beaufort County, South Carolina?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 13,392 people in, 11,809 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+1,583 people
+591 households
Arrivals' income
$146.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$81.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Beaufort County's newcomers came from in South Carolina

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other South Carolina counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Chatham County, GA, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 8 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Jasper County639
  2. San Diego County, CA336
  3. Onslow County, NC309
  4. Chatham County, GA307
  5. Charleston County300
  6. Suffolk County, NY179
  7. Mecklenburg County, NC179
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)6,548

Where did people go?

About 7 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Jasper County1,185
  2. Chatham County, GA412
  3. Charleston County358
  4. San Diego County, CA283
  5. Onslow County, NC231
  6. Greenville County192
  7. Hampton County164
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)5,361

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
221 people
Left for abroad
239 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Beaufort usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2013–14.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+59122–23††‡†
Net migration of Beaufort County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+1,206
2014–15 †+857
2015–16+1,244
2016–17 †+1,793
2017–18+902
2018–19 ‡+1,142
2019–20+1,800
2020–21+1,921
2021–22+1,633
2022–23 †+591

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 Beaufort County, South Carolina?” movedwhere.com/county/beaufort-county-sc. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.