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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 66,034 people in, 58,997 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

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Net change
+7,037 people
+3,952 households
Arrivals' income
$84.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$83.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Wake 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 Los Angeles County, CA, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Durham County5,610
  2. Johnston County3,461
  3. Mecklenburg County1,491
  4. Franklin County1,337
  5. Guilford County1,163
  6. Harnett County1,145
  7. Orange County1,118
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)8,624

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left stayed in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Johnston County6,568
  2. Durham County4,950
  3. Harnett County2,837
  4. Franklin County2,774
  5. Mecklenburg County1,708
  6. Chatham County1,397
  7. New Hanover County1,015
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)8,032

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
669 people
Left for abroad
756 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Wake 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+3,95222–23††‡†
Net migration of Wake County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+3,911
2014–15 †+2,991
2015–16+4,982
2016–17 †+4,617
2017–18+3,722
2018–19 ‡+3,261
2019–20+3,921
2020–21+3,820
2021–22+2,638
2022–23 †+3,952

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