Who's moving to and from Lafayette County, Mississippi?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 3,128 people in, 2,929 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+199 people
+56 households
Arrivals' income
$66.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$55.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Lafayette County's newcomers came from in Mississippi

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Mississippi counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Shelby County, TN, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Panola County208
  2. Shelby County, TN168
  3. Yalobusha County159
  4. DeSoto County141
  5. Lee County97
  6. Hinds County80
  7. Madison County75
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,798

Where did people go?

About 5 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Panola County213
  2. DeSoto County152
  3. Shelby County, TN129
  4. Yalobusha County129
  5. Lee County104
  6. Pontotoc County74
  7. Calhoun County66
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,622

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
24 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Lafayette usually growing from moves?

It's mixed: more households arrived than left in 5 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+5622–23††‡†
Net migration of Lafayette County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−54
2014–15 †+83
2015–16+53
2016–17 †−114
2017–18−147
2018–19 ‡+19
2019–20−169
2020–21+55
2021–22−17
2022–23 †+56

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 Lafayette County, Mississippi?” movedwhere.com/county/lafayette-county-ms. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.