Who's moving to and from Columbia County, Georgia?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 12,063 people in, 11,083 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+980 people
+329 households
Arrivals' income
$67.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$70.0k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Columbia County's newcomers came from in Georgia

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Georgia counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Aiken County, SC, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Richmond County3,415
  2. Aiken County, SC451
  3. McDuffie County279
  4. Anne Arundel County, MD157
  5. Honolulu County, HI151
  6. Bexar County, TX123
  7. Cumberland County, NC118
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)5,344

Where did people go?

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

  1. Richmond County2,634
  2. Aiken County, SC587
  3. McDuffie County321
  4. Lincoln County145
  5. Honolulu County, HI137
  6. Fulton County120
  7. El Paso County, CO109
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)5,189

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
354 people
Left for abroad
289 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Columbia 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+32922–23††‡†
Net migration of Columbia County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+1,092
2014–15 †+759
2015–16+810
2016–17 †+1,239
2017–18+904
2018–19 ‡+854
2019–20+1,136
2020–21+780
2021–22+745
2022–23 †+329

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 Columbia County, Georgia?” movedwhere.com/county/columbia-county-ga. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.