Who's moving to and from Carter County, Tennessee?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 3,222 people in, 2,558 out. Most were moving between Tennessee counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+664 people
+346 households
Arrivals' income
$49.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$44.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Carter County's newcomers came from in Tennessee

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Tennessee counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Avery County, NC, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Washington County1,002
  2. Sullivan County388
  3. Unicoi County93
  4. Johnson County70
  5. Greene County67
  6. Avery County, NC65
  7. Knox County53
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,406

Where did people go?

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

  1. Washington County991
  2. Sullivan County329
  3. Unicoi County124
  4. Greene County66
  5. Johnson County57
  6. Hawkins County43
  7. Knox County35
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)913

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

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Carter 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+34622–23††‡†
Net migration of Carter County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−162
2014–15 †+76
2015–16+92
2016–17 †+191
2017–18+100
2018–19 ‡+104
2019–20+119
2020–21+227
2021–22+339
2022–23 †+346

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 Carter County, Tennessee?” movedwhere.com/county/carter-county-tn. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.