Who's moving to and from Cherokee County, Alabama?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 1,354 people in, 1,005 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+349 people
+130 households
Arrivals' income
$59.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$47.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Cherokee County's newcomers came from in Alabama

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Alabama counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Floyd County, GA, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Floyd County, GA165
  2. DeKalb County161
  3. Etowah County147
  4. Calhoun County77
  5. Chattooga County, GA69
  6. Polk County, GA66
  7. Paulding County, GA43
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)626

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left stayed in Alabama. People, 2022–23.

  1. DeKalb County160
  2. Etowah County153
  3. Calhoun County112
  4. Floyd County, GA103
  5. Chattooga County, GA48
  6. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)429

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
Smaller moves from the West
withheld
Smaller moves to the Northeast
withheld
Smaller moves to the West
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Cherokee 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+13022–23††‡†
Net migration of Cherokee County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+28
2014–15 †−5
2015–16+52
2016–17 †+167
2017–18+113
2018–19 ‡+73
2019–20+164
2020–21+211
2021–22+180
2022–23 †+130

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 Cherokee County, Alabama?” movedwhere.com/county/cherokee-county-al. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.