Who's moving to and from Highlands County, Florida?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 6,371 people in, 4,836 out. Most were moving between Florida counties.

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Net change
+1,535 people
+732 households
Arrivals' income
$56.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$51.0k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Highlands County's newcomers came from in Florida

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

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

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Polk County574
  2. Miami-Dade County411
  3. Broward County376
  4. Lee County274
  5. Palm Beach County231
  6. Hardee County191
  7. Hillsborough County163
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)3,022

Where did people go?

About 5 in 10 who left stayed in Florida. People, 2022–23.

  1. Polk County568
  2. Hillsborough County141
  3. Hardee County135
  4. Orange County123
  5. Lee County105
  6. Broward County97
  7. Palm Beach County96
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)2,668

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
68 people
Left for abroad
45 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Highlands 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+73222–23††‡†
Net migration of Highlands County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+335
2014–15 †+507
2015–16+742
2016–17 †+1,137
2017–18+605
2018–19 ‡+584
2019–20+761
2020–21+1,370
2021–22+1,359
2022–23 †+732

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 Highlands County, Florida?” movedwhere.com/county/highlands-county-fl. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.