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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 2,270 people in, 2,048 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+222 people
+133 households
Arrivals' income
$65.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$63.4k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Jackson 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 Sarasota County, FL, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Swain County319
  2. Haywood County174
  3. Macon County116
  4. Buncombe County101
  5. Sarasota County, FL35
  6. Transylvania County34
  7. Wake County33
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,405

Where did people go?

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

  1. Swain County269
  2. Macon County183
  3. Haywood County166
  4. Buncombe County119
  5. Mecklenburg County41
  6. Henderson County39
  7. Transylvania County39
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,163

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
withheld
Net moves with Wake County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Jackson usually growing from moves?

Mostly. More households arrived than left in 8 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+13322–23††‡†
Net migration of Jackson County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−76
2014–15 †+21
2015–16+107
2016–17 †+169
2017–18+13
2018–19 ‡−60
2019–20+132
2020–21+22
2021–22+195
2022–23 †+133

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