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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 3,975 people in, 3,280 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+695 people
+227 households
Arrivals' income
$58.4k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$52.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Burke 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 are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 7 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Catawba County777
  2. Caldwell County533
  3. McDowell County345
  4. Mecklenburg County115
  5. Buncombe County106
  6. Lincoln County68
  7. Iredell County65
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,587

Where did people go?

About 7 in 10 who left stayed in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Catawba County760
  2. Caldwell County557
  3. McDowell County152
  4. Buncombe County79
  5. Mecklenburg County75
  6. Wake County59
  7. Lincoln County56
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,408

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
Net moves with Alexander County
withheld
Net moves with Gaston County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Burke usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2014–15.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+22722–23††‡†
Net migration of Burke County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−71
2014–15 †+40
2015–16+56
2016–17 †+366
2017–18+148
2018–19 ‡+59
2019–20+239
2020–21+286
2021–22+268
2022–23 †+227

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