Who's moving to and from Chatham County, Georgia?

More left than arrived in 2022–23: 17,262 people in, 18,015 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they went ↓
Net change
−753 people
+277 households
Arrivals' income
$67.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$62.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where people leaving Chatham County went in Georgia

Orange lines show departures · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Georgia counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Beaufort County, SC, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 7 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Effingham County1,119
  2. Bryan County725
  3. Liberty County535
  4. Beaufort County, SC412
  5. Bulloch County339
  6. Fulton County303
  7. Gwinnett County242
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)7,020

Where did people go?

About 5 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Effingham County1,988
  2. Bryan County1,237
  3. Liberty County896
  4. Bulloch County582
  5. Fulton County367
  6. Beaufort County, SC307
  7. Duval County, FL277
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)6,754

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
223 people
Left for abroad
253 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Chatham usually growing from moves?

Mostly. More households arrived than left in 8 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+27722–23††‡†
Net migration of Chatham County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+1,426
2014–15 †+686
2015–16+909
2016–17 †−289
2017–18+253
2018–19 ‡−284
2019–20+34
2020–21+873
2021–22+1,589
2022–23 †+277

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 Chatham County, Georgia?” movedwhere.com/county/chatham-county-ga. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.