Who's moving to and from Clay County, North Carolina?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 861 people in, 588 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+273 people
+165 households
Arrivals' income
$71.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$65.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Clay County's newcomers came from in North Carolina

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other North Carolina counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Towns County, GA, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Cherokee County131
  2. Towns County, GA96
  3. Union County, GA41
  4. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)593

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Cherokee County103
  2. Towns County, GA64
  3. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)421

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 Midwest
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 Clay usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2014–15.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+16522–23††‡†
Net migration of Clay County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−6
2014–15 †+15
2015–16+115
2016–17 †+169
2017–18+77
2018–19 ‡+78
2019–20+176
2020–21+193
2021–22+107
2022–23 †+165

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