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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 2,210 people in, 2,061 out. Most were moving between Georgia counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+149 people
−14 households
Arrivals' income
$52.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$61.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Lee County's newcomers came from in Georgia

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Georgia counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 7 in 10 already lived in Georgia. People, 2022–23.

  1. Dougherty County877
  2. Worth County109
  3. Sumter County92
  4. Mitchell County64
  5. Terrell County55
  6. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,013

Where did people go?

About 7 in 10 who left stayed in Georgia. People, 2022–23.

  1. Dougherty County597
  2. Terrell County67
  3. Worth County65
  4. Sumter County63
  5. Mitchell County47
  6. Muscogee County40
  7. Fulton County30
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,152

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
Smaller moves to the Northeast
withheld
Net moves with Muscogee County
withheld
Net moves with Fulton County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Lee usually growing from moves?

Mostly. More households arrived than left in 8 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−1422–23††‡†
Net migration of Lee County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+25
2014–15 †−50
2015–16+18
2016–17 †+174
2017–18+45
2018–19 ‡+120
2019–20+48
2020–21+143
2021–22+103
2022–23 †−14

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