Who's moving to and from Knox County, Tennessee?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 24,395 people in, 21,870 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+2,525 people
+1,518 households
Arrivals' income
$72.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$66.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Knox County's newcomers came from in Tennessee

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Tennessee counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Los Angeles County, CA, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Blount County1,757
  2. Anderson County1,352
  3. Sevier County930
  4. Loudon County693
  5. Jefferson County493
  6. Roane County426
  7. Union County405
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)8,604

Where did people go?

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

  1. Anderson County1,879
  2. Blount County1,850
  3. Loudon County1,190
  4. Sevier County852
  5. Roane County667
  6. Jefferson County599
  7. Union County496
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)6,983

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
140 people
Left for abroad
150 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Knox 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+1,51822–23††‡†
Net migration of Knox County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+664
2014–15 †+308
2015–16+853
2016–17 †+1,808
2017–18+784
2018–19 ‡+1,341
2019–20+2,083
2020–21+2,605
2021–22+1,619
2022–23 †+1,518

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 Knox County, Tennessee?” movedwhere.com/county/knox-county-tn. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.