Who's moving to and from Richland County, South Carolina?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 24,380 people in, 23,435 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+945 people
+188 households
Arrivals' income
$57.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$58.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Richland County's newcomers came from in South Carolina

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other South Carolina counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Mecklenburg County, NC, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 5 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Lexington County4,779
  2. Kershaw County821
  3. Mecklenburg County, NC708
  4. Sumter County558
  5. York County449
  6. Charleston County406
  7. Greenville County381
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)6,931

Where did people go?

About 5 in 10 who left stayed in South Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Lexington County5,649
  2. Kershaw County1,412
  3. Mecklenburg County, NC700
  4. Greenville County480
  5. Charleston County443
  6. Sumter County420
  7. Fairfield County395
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)6,228

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
374 people
Left for abroad
376 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Richland usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 8 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+18822–23††‡†
Net migration of Richland County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−98
2014–15 †+360
2015–16−521
2016–17 †−952
2017–18−211
2018–19 ‡−302
2019–20−503
2020–21−280
2021–22−110
2022–23 †+188

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 Richland County, South Carolina?” movedwhere.com/county/richland-county-sc. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.