Who's moving to and from Cape May County, New Jersey?

About as many arrived as left in 2022–23: 4,215 people in, 4,190 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+25 people
−102 households
Arrivals' income
$118.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$104.0k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Cape May County's newcomers came from in New Jersey

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other New Jersey counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Philadelphia County, PA, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Atlantic County396
  2. Philadelphia County, PA351
  3. Camden County302
  4. Gloucester County280
  5. Montgomery County, PA221
  6. Delaware County, PA217
  7. Burlington County191
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,473

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Atlantic County588
  2. Cumberland County251
  3. Gloucester County224
  4. Philadelphia County, PA206
  5. Camden County171
  6. Burlington County131
  7. Montgomery County, PA111
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,833

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
102 people
Left for abroad
72 people
Net moves with Monmouth County
withheld
Net moves with Mercer County
withheld
Net moves with Middlesex County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Cape May usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 7 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−10222–23††‡†
Net migration of Cape May County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−212
2014–15 †−482
2015–16−133
2016–17 †+244
2017–18−172
2018–19 ‡−23
2019–20+425
2020–21+556
2021–22−121
2022–23 †−102

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 May County, New Jersey?” movedwhere.com/county/cape-may-county-nj. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.