Who's moving to and from Clay County, Iowa?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 696 people in, 685 out. Most were moving between Iowa counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+11 people
+9 households
Arrivals' income
$53.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$57.8k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Clay County's newcomers came from in Iowa

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Iowa counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Dickinson County107
  2. O'Brien County41
  3. Palo Alto County37
  4. Buena Vista County36
  5. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)475

Where did people go?

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

  1. Dickinson County95
  2. Buena Vista County58
  3. Palo Alto County56
  4. O'Brien County34
  5. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)442

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 to the Northeast
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Clay 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+922–23††‡†
Net migration of Clay County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+38
2014–15 †−57
2015–16−42
2016–17 †−65
2017–18−56
2018–19 ‡+5
2019–20−65
2020–21+17
2021–22+16
2022–23 †+9

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.

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Moved Where. “Who's moving to and from Clay County, Iowa?” movedwhere.com/county/clay-county-ia. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.