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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 15,834 people in, 11,613 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+4,221 people
+1,353 households
Arrivals' income
$101.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$91.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Union 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, like Lancaster County, SC, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 5 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Mecklenburg County6,018
  2. Cabarrus County455
  3. Lancaster County, SC417
  4. York County, SC318
  5. Anson County236
  6. Stanly County190
  7. Chesterfield County, SC170
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)5,195

Where did people go?

About 5 in 10 who left stayed in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Mecklenburg County3,351
  2. Lancaster County, SC702
  3. Cabarrus County349
  4. York County, SC327
  5. Stanly County324
  6. Anson County316
  7. Chesterfield County, SC231
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)3,872

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
71 people
Left for abroad
89 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Union 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+1,35322–23††‡†
Net migration of Union County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+1,083
2014–15 †+328
2015–16+1,097
2016–17 †+1,817
2017–18+1,361
2018–19 ‡+953
2019–20+1,433
2020–21+1,316
2021–22+1,916
2022–23 †+1,353

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