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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 3,439 people in, 3,345 out. Most were moving between Missouri counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+94 people
−40 households
Arrivals' income
$50.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$52.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Cole 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 7 in 10 already lived in Missouri. People, 2022–23.

  1. Callaway County471
  2. Boone County404
  3. Moniteau County155
  4. Miller County149
  5. Osage County138
  6. St. Louis County126
  7. Greene County77
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,586

Where did people go?

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

  1. Callaway County527
  2. Boone County376
  3. Moniteau County166
  4. St. Louis County128
  5. Miller County113
  6. Jackson County112
  7. Osage County111
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,441

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

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Cole usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 9 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−4022–23††‡†
Net migration of Cole County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−177
2014–15 †−132
2015–16−194
2016–17 †−167
2017–18−182
2018–19 ‡−165
2019–20−57
2020–21+224
2021–22−29
2022–23 †−40

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