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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 659 people in, 544 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+115 people
+42 households
Arrivals' income
$60.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$47.0k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Mitchell 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 7 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Yancey County128
  2. Avery County66
  3. McDowell County60
  4. Buncombe County48
  5. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)357

Where did people go?

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

  1. Yancey County129
  2. Avery County55
  3. McDowell County55
  4. Buncombe County39
  5. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)266

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
Smaller moves from the Northeast
withheld
Smaller moves from the Midwest
withheld
Smaller moves from the West
withheld
Smaller moves to the Northeast
withheld
Smaller moves to the West
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Mitchell 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+4222–23††‡†
Net migration of Mitchell County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−35
2014–15 †−4
2015–16−14
2016–17 †−1
2017–18+57
2018–19 ‡−4
2019–20+111
2020–21+80
2021–22+91
2022–23 †+42

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