Who's moving to and from Pottawattamie County, Iowa?

About as many arrived as left in 2022–23: 3,725 people in, 3,705 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+20 people
+28 households
Arrivals' income
$52.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$53.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Pottawattamie County's newcomers came from in Iowa

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Iowa counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Douglas County, NE, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 8 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Douglas County, NE1,366
  2. Sarpy County, NE373
  3. Mills County132
  4. Harrison County120
  5. Shelby County77
  6. Cass County69
  7. Polk County60
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,323

Where did people go?

About 7 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Douglas County, NE1,137
  2. Sarpy County, NE341
  3. Mills County171
  4. Shelby County113
  5. Harrison County104
  6. Polk County81
  7. Cass County74
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,438

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 to the Northeast
withheld
Net moves with Fremont County
withheld
Net moves with Johnson County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Pottawattamie usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 9 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+2822–23††‡†
Net migration of Pottawattamie County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−8
2014–15 †−28
2015–16−215
2016–17 †−112
2017–18−133
2018–19 ‡−26
2019–20−89
2020–21−86
2021–22−80
2022–23 †+28

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 Pottawattamie County, Iowa?” movedwhere.com/county/pottawattamie-county-ia. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.