Who's moving to and from Merced County, California?

More left than arrived in 2022–23: 9,195 people in, 9,878 out. Most were moving between California counties.

See where they went ↓
Net change
−683 people
−662 households
Arrivals' income
$51.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$54.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where people leaving Merced County went in California

Orange lines show departures · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other California counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Maricopa County, AZ, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 8 in 10 already lived in California. People, 2022–23.

  1. Stanislaus County2,030
  2. Santa Clara County1,427
  3. Fresno County453
  4. San Joaquin County403
  5. Monterey County388
  6. Madera County340
  7. Alameda County329
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,488

Where did people go?

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

  1. Stanislaus County2,215
  2. Santa Clara County804
  3. Fresno County637
  4. Madera County502
  5. San Joaquin County367
  6. Sacramento County362
  7. Los Angeles County219
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)2,501

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
42 people
Left for abroad
58 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Merced usually growing from moves?

It's mixed: more households arrived than left in 5 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−66222–23††‡†
Net migration of Merced County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−332
2014–15 †−285
2015–16−41
2016–17 †+334
2017–18+216
2018–19 ‡+220
2019–20+579
2020–21+679
2021–22−112
2022–23 †−662

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 Merced County, California?” movedwhere.com/county/merced-county-ca. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.