Who's moving to and from Buncombe County, North Carolina?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 14,767 people in, 13,541 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+1,226 people
+1,006 households
Arrivals' income
$86.0k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$68.8k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Buncombe County's newcomers came from in North Carolina

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other North Carolina counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Greenville County, SC, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Henderson County1,170
  2. Haywood County441
  3. Mecklenburg County413
  4. Madison County356
  5. Wake County335
  6. McDowell County230
  7. Greenville County, SC175
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)5,481

Where did people go?

About 5 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Henderson County1,840
  2. Haywood County766
  3. Madison County590
  4. McDowell County373
  5. Mecklenburg County370
  6. Greenville County, SC271
  7. Spartanburg County, SC261
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)4,555

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
100 people
Left for abroad
101 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Buncombe 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+1,00622–23††‡†
Net migration of Buncombe County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+968
2014–15 †+738
2015–16+1,545
2016–17 †+1,273
2017–18+966
2018–19 ‡+1,129
2019–20+1,282
2020–21+1,302
2021–22+1,360
2022–23 †+1,006

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 Buncombe County, North Carolina?” movedwhere.com/county/buncombe-county-nc. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.