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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 2,329 people in, 1,824 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+505 people
+180 households
Arrivals' income
$55.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$47.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Stokes 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 are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 8 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Forsyth County893
  2. Surry County294
  3. Rockingham County148
  4. Guilford County97
  5. Davidson County76
  6. Yadkin County40
  7. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)781

Where did people go?

About 8 in 10 who left stayed in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Forsyth County613
  2. Surry County241
  3. Rockingham County141
  4. Guilford County92
  5. Davidson County88
  6. Yadkin County54
  7. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)595

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 to the Northeast
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Stokes usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2016–17.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+18022–23††‡†
Net migration of Stokes County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−16
2014–15 †−8
2015–16−51
2016–17 †+102
2017–18+49
2018–19 ‡+164
2019–20+170
2020–21+257
2021–22+348
2022–23 †+180

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