Who's moving to and from Maricopa County, Arizona?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 149,222 people in, 144,612 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+4,610 people
+5,607 households
Arrivals' income
$88.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$78.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Maricopa County's newcomers came from in Arizona

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Arizona counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Los Angeles County, CA, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 8 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Pinal County11,753
  2. Los Angeles County, CA5,844
  3. Pima County5,043
  4. San Diego County, CA3,877
  5. Orange County, CA2,978
  6. Yavapai County2,783
  7. Riverside County, CA2,705
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)13,771

Where did people go?

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

  1. Pinal County20,751
  2. Pima County4,305
  3. Yavapai County3,909
  4. Los Angeles County, CA3,155
  5. San Diego County, CA2,636
  6. Clark County, NV2,195
  7. Navajo County1,980
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)16,271

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
1,568 people
Left for abroad
1,969 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Maricopa 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+5,60722–23††‡†
Net migration of Maricopa County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+9,730
2014–15 †+8,931
2015–16+16,258
2016–17 †+21,897
2017–18+20,357
2018–19 ‡+21,671
2019–20+21,813
2020–21+13,680
2021–22+6,993
2022–23 †+5,607

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 Maricopa County, Arizona?” movedwhere.com/county/maricopa-county-az. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.