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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 3,347 people in, 2,706 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+641 people
+306 households
Arrivals' income
$56.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$51.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Caldwell 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 County676
  2. Burke County557
  3. Alexander County134
  4. Watauga County108
  5. Mecklenburg County72
  6. Iredell County65
  7. Lincoln County53
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,509

Where did people go?

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

  1. Catawba County620
  2. Burke County533
  3. Alexander County144
  4. Lincoln County81
  5. Mecklenburg County68
  6. Watauga County47
  7. Iredell County42
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,066

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 Wake County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Caldwell usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2015–16.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+30622–23††‡†
Net migration of Caldwell County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+24
2014–15 †−53
2015–16+104
2016–17 †+204
2017–18+96
2018–19 ‡+95
2019–20+167
2020–21+210
2021–22+247
2022–23 †+306

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