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

About as many arrived as left in 2022–23: 3,935 people in, 3,910 out. Most were moving between Mississippi counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+25 people
+7 households
Arrivals' income
$49.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$51.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Lee 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 7 in 10 already lived in Mississippi. People, 2022–23.

  1. Pontotoc County418
  2. Itawamba County362
  3. Monroe County332
  4. Union County274
  5. Prentiss County239
  6. Chickasaw County178
  7. Shelby County, TN118
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,394

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left stayed in Mississippi. People, 2022–23.

  1. Itawamba County416
  2. Pontotoc County385
  3. Monroe County327
  4. Prentiss County255
  5. Union County213
  6. Chickasaw County147
  7. Shelby County, TN124
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,466

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

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Lee usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 7 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+722–23††‡†
Net migration of Lee County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−140
2014–15 †−60
2015–16−77
2016–17 †+34
2017–18+54
2018–19 ‡−84
2019–20−60
2020–21−111
2021–22−6
2022–23 †+7

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