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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 6,284 people in, 4,576 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+1,708 people
+758 households
Arrivals' income
$87.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$75.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Lincoln 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, like York County, SC, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Mecklenburg County1,275
  2. Gaston County1,093
  3. Catawba County709
  4. Iredell County268
  5. Cleveland County231
  6. Cabarrus County163
  7. Caldwell County81
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)2,117

Where did people go?

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

  1. Catawba County990
  2. Gaston County703
  3. Mecklenburg County557
  4. Cleveland County194
  5. Iredell County174
  6. Cabarrus County90
  7. Burke County68
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,508

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
Net moves with Brunswick County
withheld
Net moves with Forsyth County
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 2013–14.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+75822–23††‡†
Net migration of Lincoln County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+237
2014–15 †+114
2015–16+253
2016–17 †+947
2017–18+838
2018–19 ‡+731
2019–20+826
2020–21+1,257
2021–22+1,167
2022–23 †+758

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