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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 14,785 people in, 13,837 out. Most were moving between Missouri counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+948 people
+595 households
Arrivals' income
$61.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$65.0k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Clay County's newcomers came from in Missouri

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Missouri counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Johnson County, KS, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Jackson County3,779
  2. Platte County2,644
  3. Johnson County, KS815
  4. Wyandotte County, KS511
  5. Ray County434
  6. Clinton County314
  7. Buchanan County202
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)4,053

Where did people go?

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

  1. Jackson County3,254
  2. Platte County2,420
  3. Johnson County, KS844
  4. Ray County528
  5. Clinton County446
  6. Wyandotte County, KS360
  7. Cass County196
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)4,060

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
54 people
Left for abroad
57 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Clay usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2013–14.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+59522–23††‡†
Net migration of Clay County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+295
2014–15 †+369
2015–16+1,171
2016–17 †+1,730
2017–18+978
2018–19 ‡+1,029
2019–20+583
2020–21+83
2021–22+519
2022–23 †+595

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, Missouri?” movedwhere.com/county/clay-county-mo. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.