Who's moving to and from Forsyth County, North Carolina?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 18,431 people in, 17,627 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

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Net change
+804 people
+531 households
Arrivals' income
$65.0k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$68.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Forsyth County's newcomers came from in North Carolina

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other North Carolina counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Los Angeles County, CA, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 5 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Guilford County2,863
  2. Davidson County1,348
  3. Stokes County613
  4. Mecklenburg County557
  5. Davie County474
  6. Wake County431
  7. Yadkin County262
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)6,228

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left stayed in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Guilford County2,359
  2. Davidson County1,908
  3. Stokes County893
  4. Davie County751
  5. Mecklenburg County701
  6. Wake County510
  7. Yadkin County418
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)4,925

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
110 people
Left for abroad
134 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Forsyth 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+53122–23††‡†
Net migration of Forsyth County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+88
2014–15 †+387
2015–16+747
2016–17 †+1,441
2017–18+377
2018–19 ‡+484
2019–20+465
2020–21+630
2021–22+1,020
2022–23 †+531

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 Forsyth County, North Carolina?” movedwhere.com/county/forsyth-county-nc. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.