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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 4,077 people in, 3,359 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

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Net change
+718 people
+327 households
Arrivals' income
$89.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$68.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Carteret 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 6 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Craven County516
  2. Onslow County351
  3. Wake County328
  4. Johnston County122
  5. Pitt County83
  6. New Hanover County63
  7. Durham County57
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)2,263

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left stayed in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Craven County552
  2. Onslow County472
  3. Wake County180
  4. Pitt County83
  5. New Hanover County70
  6. Durham County46
  7. Johnston County42
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,873

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
56 people
Left for abroad
47 people
Net moves with Lenoir County
withheld
Net moves with Forsyth County
withheld
Net moves with Guilford County
withheld
Net moves with Orange County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Carteret usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2013–14.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+32722–23††‡†
Net migration of Carteret County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+99
2014–15 †+63
2015–16+144
2016–17 †+472
2017–18+346
2018–19 ‡+108
2019–20+476
2020–21+656
2021–22+470
2022–23 †+327

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