Who's moving to and from Pierce County, Washington?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 49,197 people in, 48,618 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+579 people
+1,150 households
Arrivals' income
$73.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$70.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Pierce County's newcomers came from in Washington

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

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

Where did newcomers come from?

About 5 in 10 already lived in Washington. People, 2022–23.

  1. King County16,244
  2. Thurston County2,740
  3. Kitsap County1,441
  4. Snohomish County1,392
  5. Maricopa County, AZ695
  6. Honolulu County, HI684
  7. Los Angeles County, CA642
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)8,393

Where did people go?

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

  1. King County9,505
  2. Thurston County3,656
  3. Kitsap County1,887
  4. Maricopa County, AZ1,276
  5. Snohomish County1,016
  6. Honolulu County, HI665
  7. Spokane County567
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)10,471

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
1,232 people
Left for abroad
1,252 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Pierce usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2013–14.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+1,15022–23††‡†
Net migration of Pierce County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+2,453
2014–15 †+2,389
2015–16+5,465
2016–17 †+6,370
2017–18+3,506
2018–19 ‡+2,185
2019–20+2,232
2020–21+250
2021–22+173
2022–23 †+1,150

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.

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Moved Where. “Who's moving to and from Pierce County, Washington?” movedwhere.com/county/pierce-county-wa. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.