Who's moving to and from La Plata County, Colorado?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 3,013 people in, 2,930 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+83 people
+30 households
Arrivals' income
$88.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$75.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where La Plata County's newcomers came from in Colorado

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Colorado counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like San Juan County, NM, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 7 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. San Juan County, NM205
  2. Maricopa County, AZ134
  3. Montezuma County90
  4. Denver County76
  5. Archuleta County74
  6. Jefferson County70
  7. Travis County, TX69
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,858

Where did people go?

About 7 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. San Juan County, NM288
  2. Montezuma County147
  3. Maricopa County, AZ135
  4. Larimer County76
  5. Denver County75
  6. Arapahoe County57
  7. Mesa County57
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,815

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 El Paso County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is La Plata 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+3022–23††‡†
Net migration of La Plata County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+128
2014–15 †+67
2015–16+132
2016–17 †+196
2017–18+106
2018–19 ‡−12
2019–20+193
2020–21+144
2021–22−12
2022–23 †+30

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 La Plata County, Colorado?” movedwhere.com/county/la-plata-county-co. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.