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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 2,619 people in, 2,105 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+514 people
+244 households
Arrivals' income
$56.4k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$54.8k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Rutherford 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 5 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Cleveland County356
  2. Buncombe County188
  3. Spartanburg County, SC155
  4. Polk County136
  5. Henderson County115
  6. McDowell County112
  7. Mecklenburg County71
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,336

Where did people go?

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

  1. Cleveland County345
  2. Spartanburg County, SC174
  3. Polk County104
  4. Buncombe County74
  5. Henderson County66
  6. Burke County61
  7. Gaston County61
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,005

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 Rutherford 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+24422–23††‡†
Net migration of Rutherford County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−27
2014–15 †+40
2015–16+58
2016–17 †+313
2017–18+234
2018–19 ‡+132
2019–20+204
2020–21+312
2021–22+459
2022–23 †+244

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