Who's moving to and from Spokane County, Washington?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 19,859 people in, 19,540 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+319 people
+615 households
Arrivals' income
$65.4k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$66.0k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Spokane County's newcomers came from in Washington

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Washington counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Kootenai County, ID, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Kootenai County, ID1,801
  2. King County1,175
  3. Stevens County892
  4. Snohomish County621
  5. Pierce County567
  6. Maricopa County, AZ390
  7. Benton County375
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)5,747

Where did people go?

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

  1. Kootenai County, ID1,663
  2. Stevens County1,035
  3. King County938
  4. Maricopa County, AZ519
  5. Pierce County470
  6. Snohomish County357
  7. Pend Oreille County350
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)6,468

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
341 people
Left for abroad
326 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Spokane 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+61522–23††‡†
Net migration of Spokane County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+1,089
2014–15 †+819
2015–16+2,035
2016–17 †+3,500
2017–18+2,759
2018–19 ‡+2,000
2019–20+1,963
2020–21+1,436
2021–22+1,012
2022–23 †+615

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 Spokane County, Washington?” movedwhere.com/county/spokane-county-wa. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.