Who's moving to and from Dane County, Wisconsin?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 22,468 people in, 21,957 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+511 people
+1,280 households
Arrivals' income
$65.4k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$77.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Dane County's newcomers came from in Wisconsin

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Wisconsin counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Cook County, IL, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Cook County, IL1,046
  2. Milwaukee County935
  3. Rock County858
  4. Columbia County638
  5. Jefferson County552
  6. Waukesha County521
  7. Sauk County504
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)5,811

Where did people go?

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

  1. Rock County1,210
  2. Columbia County925
  3. Milwaukee County918
  4. Cook County, IL916
  5. Jefferson County672
  6. Sauk County604
  7. Green County513
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)5,487

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
289 people
Left for abroad
409 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Dane usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 8 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+1,28022–23††‡†
Net migration of Dane County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−411
2014–15 †+265
2015–16−6
2016–17 †−2,075
2017–18−1,123
2018–19 ‡−669
2019–20−1,667
2020–21−2,351
2021–22−1,187
2022–23 †+1,280

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 Dane County, Wisconsin?” movedwhere.com/county/dane-county-wi. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.