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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 5,643 people in, 3,880 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+1,763 people
+693 households
Arrivals' income
$137.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$105.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Chatham 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 Los Angeles County, CA, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Wake County1,397
  2. Orange County577
  3. Durham County497
  4. Lee County223
  5. Randolph County189
  6. Alamance County102
  7. Moore County89
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)2,231

Where did people go?

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

  1. Wake County595
  2. Lee County303
  3. Orange County287
  4. Randolph County273
  5. Durham County260
  6. Alamance County207
  7. Guilford County99
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,507

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
43 people
Net moves with Brunswick County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Chatham 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+69322–23††‡†
Net migration of Chatham County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+595
2014–15 †+297
2015–16+591
2016–17 †+1,129
2017–18+750
2018–19 ‡+533
2019–20+799
2020–21+904
2021–22+527
2022–23 †+693

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