Who's moving to and from Sumter County, South Carolina?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 5,547 people in, 5,259 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+288 people
+127 households
Arrivals' income
$50.1k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$51.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Sumter County's newcomers came from in South Carolina

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other South Carolina counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Clark County, NV, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Richland County420
  2. Clarendon County384
  3. Florence County172
  4. Lee County168
  5. Lexington County153
  6. Kershaw County149
  7. Charleston County66
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)3,433

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Richland County558
  2. Clarendon County316
  3. Lexington County159
  4. Kershaw County146
  5. Lee County133
  6. Florence County113
  7. Horry County86
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)3,108

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
373 people
Left for abroad
310 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Sumter usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 9 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+12722–23††‡†
Net migration of Sumter County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−281
2014–15 †−187
2015–16−167
2016–17 †−482
2017–18−32
2018–19 ‡−172
2019–20−273
2020–21−192
2021–22−3
2022–23 †+127

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 Sumter County, South Carolina?” movedwhere.com/county/sumter-county-sc. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.