Who's moving to and from Hancock County, Maine?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 2,396 people in, 2,118 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+278 people
+122 households
Arrivals' income
$82.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$70.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Hancock County's newcomers came from in Maine

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

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

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Penobscot County402
  2. Waldo County103
  3. Cumberland County96
  4. Washington County89
  5. York County63
  6. Kennebec County39
  7. Somerset County34
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,570

Where did people go?

About 5 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Penobscot County474
  2. Washington County106
  3. Cumberland County102
  4. Waldo County93
  5. York County42
  6. Knox County37
  7. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,264

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
58 people
Left for abroad
49 people
Net moves with Kennebec County
withheld
Net moves with Knox County
withheld
Net moves with Somerset County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Hancock usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2015–16.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+12222–23††‡†
Net migration of Hancock County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+114
2014–15 †−89
2015–16+92
2016–17 †+312
2017–18+232
2018–19 ‡+140
2019–20+391
2020–21+407
2021–22+231
2022–23 †+122

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 Hancock County, Maine?” movedwhere.com/county/hancock-county-me. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.