Who's moving to and from Chaves County, New Mexico?

More left than arrived in 2022–23: 1,736 people in, 2,190 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they went ↓
Net change
−454 people
−242 households
Arrivals' income
$51.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$59.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where people leaving Chaves County went in New Mexico

Orange lines show departures · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other New Mexico counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like El Paso County, TX, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Eddy County237
  2. Bernalillo County119
  3. Lea County67
  4. Doña Ana County54
  5. Lincoln County44
  6. El Paso County, TX36
  7. Los Angeles County, CA32
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,147

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Eddy County197
  2. Bernalillo County147
  3. Lubbock County, TX89
  4. Doña Ana County78
  5. Lea County72
  6. Maricopa County, AZ71
  7. Lincoln County61
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,387

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
withheld
Smaller moves from the Northeast
withheld
Net moves with Otero County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Chaves usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 9 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−24222–23††‡†
Net migration of Chaves County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−134
2014–15 †−114
2015–16−138
2016–17 †−399
2017–18−188
2018–19 ‡+34
2019–20−128
2020–21−273
2021–22−110
2022–23 †−242

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 Chaves County, New Mexico?” movedwhere.com/county/chaves-county-nm. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.