Who's moving to and from Chester County, South Carolina?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 1,652 people in, 1,286 out. Most were moving between South Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+366 people
+232 households
Arrivals' income
$48.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$44.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Chester County's newcomers came from in South Carolina

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other South Carolina counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Mecklenburg County, NC, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. York County730
  2. Lancaster County172
  3. Mecklenburg County, NC152
  4. Fairfield County53
  5. Richland County37
  6. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)508

Where did people go?

About 8 in 10 who left stayed in South Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. York County507
  2. Lancaster County144
  3. Fairfield County67
  4. Richland County62
  5. Mecklenburg County, NC45
  6. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)461

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 West
withheld
Smaller moves to the Northeast
withheld
Smaller moves to the Midwest
withheld
Smaller moves to the West
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Chester 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+23222–23††‡†
Net migration of Chester County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+7
2014–15 †−9
2015–16+27
2016–17 †+89
2017–18+8
2018–19 ‡−9
2019–20+118
2020–21+35
2021–22+102
2022–23 †+232

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, South Carolina?” movedwhere.com/county/chester-county-sc. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.