Who's moving to and from Flathead County, Montana?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 5,976 people in, 4,637 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+1,339 people
+681 households
Arrivals' income
$91.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$70.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Flathead County's newcomers came from in Montana

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Montana counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like King County, WA, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 8 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Lake County233
  2. Missoula County232
  3. Gallatin County193
  4. King County, WA160
  5. Lincoln County136
  6. Los Angeles County, CA127
  7. San Diego County, CA126
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)3,558

Where did people go?

About 7 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Missoula County233
  2. Lake County227
  3. Lincoln County210
  4. Gallatin County137
  5. Maricopa County, AZ104
  6. Lewis and Clark County76
  7. Cascade County72
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)2,917

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
51 people
Net moves with Ravalli County
withheld
Net moves with Silver Bow County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Flathead 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+68122–23††‡†
Net migration of Flathead County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+463
2014–15 †+257
2015–16+698
2016–17 †+1,315
2017–18+701
2018–19 ‡+898
2019–20+1,324
2020–21+1,462
2021–22+985
2022–23 †+681

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 Flathead County, Montana?” movedwhere.com/county/flathead-county-mt. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.