Who's moving to and from Missoula County, Montana?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 5,968 people in, 5,554 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+414 people
+462 households
Arrivals' income
$62.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$58.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Missoula County's newcomers came from in Montana

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Montana counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like King County, WA, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Ravalli County464
  2. Flathead County233
  3. Gallatin County205
  4. Lewis and Clark County203
  5. Lake County184
  6. Yellowstone County155
  7. King County, WA126
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)3,002

Where did people go?

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

  1. Ravalli County576
  2. Lake County245
  3. Flathead County232
  4. Lewis and Clark County179
  5. Gallatin County175
  6. Yellowstone County155
  7. Cascade County150
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)2,770

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
43 people
Left for abroad
46 people
Net moves with Granite County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Missoula 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+46222–23††‡†
Net migration of Missoula County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−174
2014–15 †+156
2015–16+410
2016–17 †+186
2017–18+57
2018–19 ‡+200
2019–20+318
2020–21+285
2021–22+181
2022–23 †+462

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 Missoula County, Montana?” movedwhere.com/county/missoula-county-mt. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.