Who's moving to and from Benton County, Iowa?

About as many arrived as left in 2022–23: 1,084 people in, 1,082 out. Most were moving between Iowa counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+2 people
−41 households
Arrivals' income
$56.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$57.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Benton County's newcomers came from in Iowa

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

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

Where did newcomers come from?

About 8 in 10 already lived in Iowa. People, 2022–23.

  1. Linn County540
  2. Iowa County62
  3. Johnson County57
  4. Black Hawk County57
  5. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)368

Where did people go?

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

  1. Linn County430
  2. Black Hawk County77
  3. Iowa County58
  4. Tama County57
  5. Johnson County47
  6. Buchanan County32
  7. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)381

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 from the Northeast
withheld
Smaller moves to the Northeast
withheld
Smaller moves to the West
withheld
Net moves with Tama County
withheld
Net moves with Buchanan County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Benton 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)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−4122–23††‡†
Net migration of Benton County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−23
2014–15 †−83
2015–16+29
2016–17 †+11
2017–18−7
2018–19 ‡−89
2019–20+80
2020–21+30
2021–22+9
2022–23 †−41

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 Benton County, Iowa?” movedwhere.com/county/benton-county-ia. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.