Who's moving to and from Penobscot County, Maine?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 5,578 people in, 5,071 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+507 people
+293 households
Arrivals' income
$53.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$55.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Penobscot County's newcomers came from in Maine

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Maine counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Middlesex County, MA, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 5 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Hancock County474
  2. Waldo County315
  3. Somerset County298
  4. Piscataquis County257
  5. Aroostook County247
  6. Cumberland County242
  7. Kennebec County236
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)2,661

Where did people go?

About 5 in 10 who left stayed in Maine. People, 2022–23.

  1. Hancock County402
  2. Cumberland County319
  3. Waldo County296
  4. Somerset County279
  5. Kennebec County266
  6. Aroostook County247
  7. Piscataquis County232
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)2,343

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
52 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Penobscot usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 6 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+29322–23††‡†
Net migration of Penobscot County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−461
2014–15 †−338
2015–16−394
2016–17 †−158
2017–18−66
2018–19 ‡−131
2019–20+88
2020–21+474
2021–22+364
2022–23 †+293

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 Penobscot County, Maine?” movedwhere.com/county/penobscot-county-me. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.