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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 3,450 people in, 3,353 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+97 people
+78 households
Arrivals' income
$48.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$56.0k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Clay County's newcomers came from in Minnesota

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Minnesota counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Cass County, ND, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 7 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Cass County, ND1,523
  2. Otter Tail County171
  3. Becker County142
  4. Hennepin County76
  5. Grand Forks County, ND65
  6. Polk County60
  7. Norman County40
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,208

Where did people go?

About 7 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Cass County, ND1,346
  2. Becker County160
  3. Otter Tail County150
  4. Hennepin County121
  5. Ramsey County58
  6. Stearns County53
  7. Norman County49
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,312

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
Net moves with Polk County
withheld
Net moves with Ramsey County
withheld
Net moves with Beltrami County
withheld
Net moves with St. Louis County
withheld
Net moves with Wilkin County
withheld
Net moves with Anoka County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Clay usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 6 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+7822–23††‡†
Net migration of Clay County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+78
2014–15 †+1
2015–16+103
2016–17 †−187
2017–18−55
2018–19 ‡−295
2019–20−99
2020–21−40
2021–22−210
2022–23 †+78

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 Clay County, Minnesota?” movedwhere.com/county/clay-county-mn. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.