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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 8,704 people in, 7,102 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+1,602 people
+785 households
Arrivals' income
$65.0k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$57.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Catawba 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, like York County, SC, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 7 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Lincoln County990
  2. Burke County760
  3. Mecklenburg County715
  4. Iredell County644
  5. Caldwell County620
  6. Alexander County400
  7. Gaston County250
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)3,274

Where did people go?

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

  1. Burke County777
  2. Lincoln County709
  3. Caldwell County676
  4. Iredell County539
  5. Mecklenburg County399
  6. Alexander County383
  7. Gaston County205
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)2,405

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
38 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Catawba 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+78522–23††‡†
Net migration of Catawba County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+24
2014–15 †−11
2015–16+248
2016–17 †+671
2017–18+307
2018–19 ‡+382
2019–20+353
2020–21+752
2021–22+828
2022–23 †+785

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