Who's moving to and from Lincoln County, Montana?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 1,153 people in, 773 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+380 people
+169 households
Arrivals' income
$84.4k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$57.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Lincoln County's newcomers came from in Montana

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Montana counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Kootenai County, ID, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Flathead County210
  2. Missoula County33
  3. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)910

Where did people go?

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

  1. Flathead County136
  2. Kootenai County, ID41
  3. Missoula County26
  4. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)570

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 from the Northeast
withheld
Smaller moves to the Northeast
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Lincoln usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2015–16.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+16922–23††‡†
Net migration of Lincoln County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−3
2014–15 †−56
2015–16+79
2016–17 †+296
2017–18+122
2018–19 ‡+141
2019–20+251
2020–21+483
2021–22+387
2022–23 †+169

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 Lincoln County, Montana?” movedwhere.com/county/lincoln-county-mt. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.