Who's moving to and from Mesa County, Colorado?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 6,863 people in, 5,388 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+1,475 people
+827 households
Arrivals' income
$70.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$58.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Mesa County's newcomers came from in Colorado

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

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

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Garfield County406
  2. Jefferson County309
  3. Montrose County253
  4. Delta County214
  5. Denver County194
  6. El Paso County165
  7. Arapahoe County163
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)3,339

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Delta County244
  2. Garfield County210
  3. Montrose County202
  4. Jefferson County135
  5. Larimer County125
  6. Maricopa County, AZ120
  7. Weld County112
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)3,205

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
53 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Mesa usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2014–15.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+82722–23††‡†
Net migration of Mesa County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−4
2014–15 †+123
2015–16+386
2016–17 †+979
2017–18+652
2018–19 ‡+442
2019–20+756
2020–21+644
2021–22+513
2022–23 †+827

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 Mesa County, Colorado?” movedwhere.com/county/mesa-county-co. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.