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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 1,886 people in, 1,463 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+423 people
+247 households
Arrivals' income
$76.8k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$69.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Macon 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 Rabun County, GA, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Jackson County183
  2. Rabun County, GA65
  3. Buncombe County55
  4. Haywood County50
  5. Pinellas County, FL36
  6. Hillsborough County, FL29
  7. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,468

Where did people go?

About 7 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Jackson County116
  2. Haywood County60
  3. Rabun County, GA59
  4. Buncombe County49
  5. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,179

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 Macon 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+24722–23††‡†
Net migration of Macon County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+124
2014–15 †+20
2015–16+149
2016–17 †+440
2017–18+302
2018–19 ‡+162
2019–20+335
2020–21+325
2021–22+269
2022–23 †+247

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