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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 1,784 people in, 1,652 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+132 people
+76 households
Arrivals' income
$63.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$50.8k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where McDowell 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 are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Buncombe County373
  2. Burke County152
  3. Rutherford County61
  4. Henderson County59
  5. Mitchell County55
  6. Catawba County47
  7. Mecklenburg County33
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,004

Where did people go?

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

  1. Burke County345
  2. Buncombe County230
  3. Rutherford County112
  4. Mitchell County60
  5. Henderson County44
  6. Catawba County43
  7. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)818

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 Mecklenburg County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is McDowell 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+7622–23††‡†
Net migration of McDowell County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+51
2014–15 †+39
2015–16+67
2016–17 †+165
2017–18+238
2018–19 ‡+155
2019–20+176
2020–21+230
2021–22+221
2022–23 †+76

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