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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 6,033 people in, 5,643 out. Most were moving between Texas counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+390 people
+152 households
Arrivals' income
$86.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$80.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Polk County's newcomers came from in Texas

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Texas counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Sumter County, FL, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 already lived in Texas. People, 2022–23.

  1. Harris County808
  2. Montgomery County449
  3. Liberty County219
  4. San Jacinto County183
  5. Angelina County119
  6. Travis County96
  7. Galveston County95
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)3,277

Where did people go?

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

  1. Harris County429
  2. Sumter County, FL308
  3. Montgomery County300
  4. San Jacinto County174
  5. Angelina County162
  6. Liberty County115
  7. Pennington County, SD113
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)3,199

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+15222–23††‡†
Net migration of Polk County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+126
2014–15 †+2
2015–16+359
2016–17 †+1,208
2017–18+618
2018–19 ‡+740
2019–20+591
2020–21+1,232
2021–22+616
2022–23 †+152

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