Who's moving to and from Nelson County, Kentucky?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 1,977 people in, 1,794 out. Most were moving between Kentucky counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+183 people
+146 households
Arrivals' income
$57.4k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$56.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Nelson County's newcomers came from in Kentucky

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Kentucky counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Clark County, IN, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Jefferson County410
  2. Bullitt County298
  3. Hardin County170
  4. Marion County106
  5. Washington County97
  6. Spencer County75
  7. Larue County66
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)712

Where did people go?

About 8 in 10 who left stayed in Kentucky. People, 2022–23.

  1. Jefferson County303
  2. Bullitt County207
  3. Washington County140
  4. Hardin County121
  5. Marion County93
  6. Spencer County55
  7. Larue County53
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)730

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 to the Northeast
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Nelson usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2015–16.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+14622–23††‡†
Net migration of Nelson County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+83
2014–15 †−33
2015–16+157
2016–17 †+163
2017–18+100
2018–19 ‡+108
2019–20+160
2020–21+195
2021–22+176
2022–23 †+146

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 Nelson County, Kentucky?” movedwhere.com/county/nelson-county-ky. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.