Who's moving to and from Cape Girardeau County, Missouri?

About as many arrived as left in 2022–23: 3,292 people in, 3,275 out. Most were moving between Missouri counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+17 people
−62 households
Arrivals' income
$49.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$56.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Cape Girardeau County's newcomers came from in Missouri

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Missouri counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Alexander County, IL, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 already lived in Missouri. People, 2022–23.

  1. Scott County503
  2. Bollinger County219
  3. St. Louis County141
  4. Stoddard County132
  5. Perry County129
  6. Jefferson County70
  7. Alexander County, IL69
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,648

Where did people go?

About 5 in 10 who left stayed in Missouri. People, 2022–23.

  1. Scott County474
  2. Bollinger County220
  3. St. Louis County192
  4. Perry County109
  5. St. Louis city91
  6. Stoddard County73
  7. Jefferson County67
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,871

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 New Madrid County
withheld
Net moves with Butler County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Cape Girardeau usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 8 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−6222–23††‡†
Net migration of Cape Girardeau County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−148
2014–15 †−13
2015–16−100
2016–17 †−396
2017–18−86
2018–19 ‡−141
2019–20+98
2020–21+95
2021–22−7
2022–23 †−62

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 Cape Girardeau County, Missouri?” movedwhere.com/county/cape-girardeau-county-mo. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.