Who's moving to and from Polk County, Georgia?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 2,265 people in, 1,997 out. Most were moving between Georgia counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+268 people
+147 households
Arrivals' income
$53.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$46.4k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Polk County's newcomers came from in Georgia

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Georgia counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Cherokee County, AL, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Paulding County445
  2. Floyd County397
  3. Bartow County247
  4. Cobb County206
  5. Carroll County96
  6. Douglas County62
  7. Haralson County61
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)699

Where did people go?

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

  1. Floyd County526
  2. Paulding County235
  3. Bartow County224
  4. Cobb County100
  5. Haralson County99
  6. Carroll County73
  7. Cherokee County, AL66
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)640

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
Smaller moves to the West
withheld
Net moves with Douglas County
withheld
Net moves with Cherokee County
withheld
Net moves with Gordon County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Polk 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+14722–23††‡†
Net migration of Polk County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−44
2014–15 †+57
2015–16+16
2016–17 †+143
2017–18+141
2018–19 ‡+228
2019–20+51
2020–21+297
2021–22+143
2022–23 †+147

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 Polk County, Georgia?” movedwhere.com/county/polk-county-ga. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.