Who's moving to and from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 10,763 people in, 10,125 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+638 people
−79 households
Arrivals' income
$49.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$52.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Luzerne County's newcomers came from in Pennsylvania

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Pennsylvania counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Bronx County, NY, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Lackawanna County1,091
  2. Bronx County, NY924
  3. Kings County, NY524
  4. Schuylkill County499
  5. Passaic County, NJ455
  6. Columbia County366
  7. Queens County, NY356
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)2,788

Where did people go?

About 5 in 10 who left stayed in Pennsylvania. People, 2022–23.

  1. Lackawanna County1,122
  2. Schuylkill County809
  3. Columbia County542
  4. Bronx County, NY294
  5. Carbon County257
  6. Philadelphia County248
  7. Wyoming County237
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)3,631

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
98 people
Left for abroad
75 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Luzerne 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)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−7922–23††‡†
Net migration of Luzerne County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−592
2014–15 †−362
2015–16−714
2016–17 †−304
2017–18−133
2018–19 ‡−397
2019–20+180
2020–21+807
2021–22+63
2022–23 †−79

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.

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Moved Where. “Who's moving to and from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania?” movedwhere.com/county/luzerne-county-pa. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.