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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 23,662 people in, 22,158 out. Most were moving between Minnesota counties.

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Net change
+1,504 people
+692 households
Arrivals' income
$75.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$74.8k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Dakota 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 Maricopa County, AZ, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 7 in 10 already lived in Minnesota. People, 2022–23.

  1. Hennepin County6,338
  2. Ramsey County4,071
  3. Scott County1,636
  4. Washington County1,441
  5. Anoka County569
  6. Rice County515
  7. Olmsted County299
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)4,824

Where did people go?

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

  1. Hennepin County4,745
  2. Ramsey County2,695
  3. Scott County1,933
  4. Washington County1,711
  5. Anoka County699
  6. Rice County517
  7. Maricopa County, AZ291
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)4,505

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
129 people
Left for abroad
149 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Dakota usually growing from moves?

It's mixed: more households arrived than left in 5 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+69222–23††‡†
Net migration of Dakota County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−437
2014–15 †−440
2015–16+6
2016–17 †+976
2017–18+1,443
2018–19 ‡0
2019–20+194
2020–21−320
2021–22−197
2022–23 †+692

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