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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 511 people in, 444 out. Most were moving between Iowa counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+67 people
+30 households
Arrivals' income
$47.0k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$54.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Shelby 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 7 in 10 already lived in Iowa. People, 2022–23.

  1. Pottawattamie County113
  2. Douglas County, NE56
  3. Audubon County48
  4. Harrison County44
  5. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)250

Where did people go?

About 7 in 10 who left stayed in Iowa. People, 2022–23.

  1. Pottawattamie County77
  2. Douglas County, NE40
  3. Crawford County37
  4. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)290

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 from the Northeast
withheld
Smaller moves from the South
withheld
Smaller moves to the Northeast
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Smaller moves to the South
withheld
Smaller moves to the West
withheld
Net moves with Audubon County
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Net moves with Harrison County
withheld
Net moves with Crawford County
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Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Shelby usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 7 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+3022–23††‡†
Net migration of Shelby County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−36
2014–15 †−2
2015–16−80
2016–17 †+12
2017–18−19
2018–19 ‡−64
2019–20+38
2020–21−2
2021–22−3
2022–23 †+30

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