Who's moving to and from Lee County, Florida?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 46,346 people in, 41,365 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+4,981 people
+2,217 households
Arrivals' income
$123.8k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$84.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Lee County's newcomers came from in Florida

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Florida counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Cook County, IL, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Collier County4,627
  2. Miami-Dade County3,807
  3. Broward County1,845
  4. Charlotte County852
  5. Palm Beach County726
  6. Hillsborough County688
  7. Cook County, IL547
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)10,273

Where did people go?

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

  1. Collier County3,137
  2. Charlotte County1,830
  3. Miami-Dade County1,161
  4. Hillsborough County1,132
  5. Broward County757
  6. Sarasota County740
  7. Orange County715
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)10,994

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
368 people
Left for abroad
450 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Lee 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+2,21722–23††‡†
Net migration of Lee County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+5,708
2014–15 †+6,180
2015–16+7,882
2016–17 †+7,108
2017–18+5,434
2018–19 ‡+6,468
2019–20+8,880
2020–21+13,218
2021–22+7,987
2022–23 †+2,217

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 Lee County, Florida?” movedwhere.com/county/lee-county-fl. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.