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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 16,074 people in, 11,651 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

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Net change
+4,423 people
+2,116 households
Arrivals' income
$65.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$61.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Johnston 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 Suffolk County, NY, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 7 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Wake County6,568
  2. Harnett County712
  3. Wayne County554
  4. Durham County376
  5. Cumberland County268
  6. Wilson County248
  7. Sampson County206
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)4,817

Where did people go?

About 7 in 10 who left stayed in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Wake County3,461
  2. Harnett County829
  3. Wayne County738
  4. Wilson County299
  5. Nash County262
  6. Cumberland County214
  7. Sampson County212
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)3,668

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
79 people
Left for abroad
67 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Johnston 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+2,11622–23††‡†
Net migration of Johnston County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+1,066
2014–15 †+861
2015–16+1,864
2016–17 †+2,967
2017–18+2,218
2018–19 ‡+2,318
2019–20+2,837
2020–21+3,330
2021–22+2,490
2022–23 †+2,116

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