Who's moving to and from Charleston County, South Carolina?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 26,848 people in, 25,044 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+1,804 people
+1,923 households
Arrivals' income
$104.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$76.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Charleston County's newcomers came from in South Carolina

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

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

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Berkeley County3,878
  2. Dorchester County2,637
  3. Mecklenburg County, NC546
  4. Richland County443
  5. Greenville County388
  6. Beaufort County358
  7. Horry County300
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)7,037

Where did people go?

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

  1. Berkeley County5,708
  2. Dorchester County4,144
  3. Greenville County498
  4. Richland County406
  5. Mecklenburg County, NC393
  6. Beaufort County300
  7. Colleton County297
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)6,396

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
201 people
Left for abroad
286 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Charleston 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+1,92322–23††‡†
Net migration of Charleston County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+1,941
2014–15 †+2,313
2015–16+1,940
2016–17 †+687
2017–18+678
2018–19 ‡+1,459
2019–20+1,354
2020–21+1,084
2021–22+1,049
2022–23 †+1,923

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.

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Moved Where. “Who's moving to and from Charleston County, South Carolina?” movedwhere.com/county/charleston-county-sc. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.