Who's moving to and from Lancaster County, South Carolina?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 7,194 people in, 5,026 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+2,168 people
+1,075 households
Arrivals' income
$92.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$81.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Lancaster County's newcomers came from in South Carolina

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other South Carolina counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Mecklenburg County, NC, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Mecklenburg County, NC1,906
  2. York County1,135
  3. Union County, NC702
  4. Chester County144
  5. Kershaw County135
  6. Richland County88
  7. Chesterfield County75
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)2,644

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. York County899
  2. Mecklenburg County, NC690
  3. Union County, NC417
  4. Kershaw County227
  5. Chester County172
  6. Richland County153
  7. Chesterfield County100
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,911

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 Lexington County
withheld
Net moves with Spartanburg County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Lancaster 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+1,07522–23††‡†
Net migration of Lancaster County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+910
2014–15 †+640
2015–16+1,334
2016–17 †+1,631
2017–18+1,050
2018–19 ‡+1,173
2019–20+1,408
2020–21+1,819
2021–22+1,413
2022–23 †+1,075

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 Lancaster County, South Carolina?” movedwhere.com/county/lancaster-county-sc. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.