Who's moving to and from Chester County, Pennsylvania?

About as many arrived as left in 2022–23: 20,578 people in, 20,648 out. Most were moving between Pennsylvania counties.

See where they went ↓
Net change
−70 people
−764 households
Arrivals' income
$111.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$112.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where people leaving Chester County went in Pennsylvania

Orange lines show departures · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Pennsylvania counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like New Castle County, DE, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 already lived in Pennsylvania. People, 2022–23.

  1. Montgomery County3,529
  2. Delaware County3,183
  3. Philadelphia County1,718
  4. New Castle County, DE1,179
  5. Lancaster County1,020
  6. Berks County607
  7. Bucks County443
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)4,004

Where did people go?

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

  1. Montgomery County3,020
  2. Delaware County1,895
  3. Lancaster County1,284
  4. Philadelphia County1,218
  5. New Castle County, DE1,083
  6. Berks County818
  7. Bucks County309
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)4,679

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
165 people
Left for abroad
297 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Chester usually growing from moves?

It's mixed: more households arrived than left in 5 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−76422–23††‡†
Net migration of Chester County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−194
2014–15 †−639
2015–16−869
2016–17 †+534
2017–18+529
2018–19 ‡−91
2019–20+870
2020–21+1,977
2021–22+664
2022–23 †−764

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 Chester County, Pennsylvania?” movedwhere.com/county/chester-county-pa. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.