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

About as many arrived as left in 2022–23: 66,121 people in, 65,998 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+123 people
+3,732 households
Arrivals' income
$81.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$89.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Mecklenburg 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 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Cabarrus County3,747
  2. Union County3,351
  3. Gaston County2,434
  4. York County, SC2,163
  5. Wake County1,708
  6. Iredell County1,608
  7. Guilford County1,170
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)7,405

Where did people go?

About 5 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Union County6,018
  2. Cabarrus County5,924
  3. Gaston County4,710
  4. York County, SC4,028
  5. Iredell County2,806
  6. Lancaster County, SC1,906
  7. Wake County1,491
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)7,368

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
416 people
Left for abroad
524 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Mecklenburg 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+3,73222–23††‡†
Net migration of Mecklenburg County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+3,150
2014–15 †+3,381
2015–16+4,354
2016–17 †+2,386
2017–18+1,815
2018–19 ‡+2,183
2019–20+532
2020–21+355
2021–22+2,582
2022–23 †+3,732

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