Who's moving to and from Lee County, North Carolina?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 4,364 people in, 3,761 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+603 people
+365 households
Arrivals' income
$72.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$58.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Lee County's newcomers came from in North Carolina

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

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

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Wake County675
  2. Harnett County634
  3. Chatham County303
  4. Cumberland County236
  5. Moore County209
  6. Durham County92
  7. Johnston County72
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)2,006

Where did people go?

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

  1. Harnett County907
  2. Wake County340
  3. Cumberland County227
  4. Chatham County223
  5. Moore County205
  6. Guilford County80
  7. Johnston County52
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,615

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
77 people
Left for abroad
89 people
Net moves with Orange County
withheld
Net moves with Alamance County
withheld

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 2016–17.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+36522–23††‡†
Net migration of Lee County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−265
2014–15 †−152
2015–16−71
2016–17 †+332
2017–18+196
2018–19 ‡+231
2019–20+308
2020–21+341
2021–22+663
2022–23 †+365

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