Who's moving to and from Fayette County, West Virginia?

About as many arrived as left in 2022–23: 1,301 people in, 1,292 out. Most were moving between West Virginia counties.

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Net change
+9 people
−24 households
Arrivals' income
$39.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$42.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Fayette County's newcomers came from in West Virginia

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other West Virginia counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 already lived in West Virginia. People, 2022–23.

  1. Raleigh County336
  2. Kanawha County104
  3. Nicholas County95
  4. Greenbrier County49
  5. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)717

Where did people go?

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

  1. Raleigh County418
  2. Kanawha County162
  3. Nicholas County89
  4. Greenbrier County40
  5. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)583

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 to the West
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Fayette 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)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−2422–23††‡†
Net migration of Fayette County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−97
2014–15 †−115
2015–16−150
2016–17 †−235
2017–18−143
2018–19 ‡−75
2019–20−12
2020–21+82
2021–22−99
2022–23 †−24

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 Fayette County, West Virginia?” movedwhere.com/county/fayette-county-wv. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.