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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 1,328 people in, 1,118 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+210 people
+91 households
Arrivals' income
$83.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$66.8k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Polk 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, like Spartanburg County, SC, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Henderson County162
  2. Spartanburg County, SC145
  3. Buncombe County106
  4. Rutherford County104
  5. Greenville County, SC42
  6. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)769

Where did people go?

About 5 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Henderson County178
  2. Spartanburg County, SC166
  3. Rutherford County136
  4. Buncombe County51
  5. Greenville County, SC50
  6. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)537

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

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 2013–14.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+9122–23††‡†
Net migration of Polk County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+32
2014–15 †+10
2015–16+87
2016–17 †+269
2017–18+61
2018–19 ‡+116
2019–20+271
2020–21+218
2021–22+202
2022–23 †+91

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