Who's moving to and from Ward County, North Dakota?

More left than arrived in 2022–23: 3,942 people in, 4,640 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they went ↓
Net change
−698 people
−207 households
Arrivals' income
$49.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$61.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where people leaving Ward County went in North Dakota

Orange lines show departures · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other North Dakota counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Bexar County, TX, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 7 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. McHenry County115
  2. Williams County106
  3. Cass County99
  4. Mountrail County91
  5. Clark County, NV81
  6. Burleigh County75
  7. Bottineau County67
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)2,840

Where did people go?

About 8 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Cass County169
  2. Burleigh County148
  3. Bexar County, TX116
  4. Williams County92
  5. Mountrail County89
  6. Maricopa County, AZ79
  7. McHenry County79
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)3,401

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
255 people
Left for abroad
185 people
Net moves with Rolette County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Ward usually growing from moves?

No. More households have left than arrived every year since 2015–16.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22−20722–23††‡†
Net migration of Ward County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+22
2014–15 †+302
2015–16−1,213
2016–17 †−1,471
2017–18−830
2018–19 ‡−584
2019–20−484
2020–21−678
2021–22−635
2022–23 †−207

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 Ward County, North Dakota?” movedwhere.com/county/ward-county-nd. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.