Who's moving to and from Wadena County, Minnesota?

About as many arrived as left in 2022–23: 846 people in, 852 out. Most were moving between Minnesota counties.

See where they went ↓
Net change
−6 people
−38 households
Arrivals' income
$48.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$47.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where people leaving Wadena County went in Minnesota

Orange lines show departures · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Minnesota counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Cass County, ND, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Todd County124
  2. Otter Tail County118
  3. Hubbard County74
  4. Becker County42
  5. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)488

Where did people go?

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

  1. Otter Tail County180
  2. Todd County107
  3. Becker County69
  4. Hubbard County57
  5. Crow Wing County44
  6. Cass County, ND27
  7. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)368

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
Net moves with Crow Wing County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Wadena usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 6 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−3822–23††‡†
Net migration of Wadena County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+28
2014–15 †−5
2015–16−30
2016–17 †−31
2017–18+13
2018–19 ‡−42
2019–20+72
2020–21+54
2021–22−43
2022–23 †−38

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 Wadena County, Minnesota?” movedwhere.com/county/wadena-county-mn. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.