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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 13,763 people in, 11,187 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+2,576 people
+1,353 households
Arrivals' income
$60.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$55.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Harnett 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 El Paso County, CO, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Wake County2,837
  2. Cumberland County1,692
  3. Lee County907
  4. Johnston County829
  5. Moore County244
  6. Durham County208
  7. Sampson County205
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)4,765

Where did people go?

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

  1. Cumberland County1,569
  2. Wake County1,145
  3. Johnston County712
  4. Lee County634
  5. Moore County391
  6. Sampson County291
  7. El Paso County, CO153
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)4,581

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
384 people
Left for abroad
231 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Harnett 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+1,35322–23††‡†
Net migration of Harnett County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+328
2014–15 †+396
2015–16+701
2016–17 †+786
2017–18+944
2018–19 ‡+435
2019–20+454
2020–21+1,175
2021–22+1,012
2022–23 †+1,353

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