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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 803 people in, 681 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+122 people
+79 households
Arrivals' income
$52.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$53.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Swain 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 6 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Jackson County269
  2. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)534

Where did people go?

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

  1. Jackson County319
  2. Haywood County42
  3. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)320

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 to the Northeast
withheld
Smaller moves to the Midwest
withheld
Smaller moves to the West
withheld
Net moves with Haywood County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Swain usually growing from moves?

Mostly. More households arrived than left in 6 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+7922–23††‡†
Net migration of Swain County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+19
2014–15 †−12
2015–16−56
2016–17 †+166
2017–18+3
2018–19 ‡+41
2019–20−43
2020–21+1
2021–22−4
2022–23 †+79

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