Who's moving to and from Washington County, Maryland?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 7,288 people in, 6,486 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+802 people
+196 households
Arrivals' income
$55.6k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$56.2k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Washington County's newcomers came from in Maryland

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Maryland counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Berkeley County, WV, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 5 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Frederick County1,711
  2. Montgomery County836
  3. Berkeley County, WV558
  4. Franklin County, PA546
  5. Prince George's County257
  6. Anne Arundel County173
  7. Baltimore County140
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)2,076

Where did people go?

About 7 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Berkeley County, WV900
  2. Frederick County895
  3. Franklin County, PA851
  4. Montgomery County319
  5. Allegany County103
  6. Baltimore County98
  7. Prince George's County94
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)2,391

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
56 people
Left for abroad
51 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Washington usually growing from moves?

Mostly. More households arrived than left in 7 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+19622–23††‡†
Net migration of Washington County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−236
2014–15 †−123
2015–16+159
2016–17 †+44
2017–18+149
2018–19 ‡+132
2019–20+95
2020–21−87
2021–22+509
2022–23 †+196

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 Washington County, Maryland?” movedwhere.com/county/washington-county-md. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.