Who's moving to and from Rutherford County, Tennessee?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 22,657 people in, 19,815 out. Most were moving between Tennessee counties.

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Net change
+2,842 people
+1,075 households
Arrivals' income
$61.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$56.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Rutherford County's newcomers came from in Tennessee

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Tennessee counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Maricopa County, AZ, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Davidson County6,012
  2. Williamson County1,122
  3. Wilson County765
  4. Bedford County606
  5. Coffee County405
  6. Sumner County399
  7. Shelby County397
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)7,154

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left stayed in Tennessee. People, 2022–23.

  1. Davidson County3,735
  2. Wilson County1,082
  3. Bedford County878
  4. Coffee County802
  5. Williamson County745
  6. Montgomery County509
  7. Cannon County493
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)6,401

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
68 people
Left for abroad
93 people

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 2013–14.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+1,07522–23††‡†
Net migration of Rutherford County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+1,653
2014–15 †+1,573
2015–16+2,264
2016–17 †+2,792
2017–18+1,666
2018–19 ‡+1,430
2019–20+1,809
2020–21+2,220
2021–22+1,698
2022–23 †+1,075

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