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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 6,098 people in, 5,863 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

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Net change
+235 people
+91 households
Arrivals' income
$47.5k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$49.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Wayne 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 Clark County, NV, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Johnston County738
  2. Wake County398
  3. Lenoir County293
  4. Duplin County285
  5. Wilson County203
  6. Pitt County173
  7. Sampson County150
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)3,063

Where did people go?

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

  1. Johnston County554
  2. Lenoir County417
  3. Wake County379
  4. Duplin County243
  5. Wilson County199
  6. Pitt County183
  7. Greene County136
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)2,799

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
280 people
Left for abroad
226 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Wayne usually growing from moves?

Mostly not. More households left than arrived in 7 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+9122–23††‡†
Net migration of Wayne County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−403
2014–15 †−235
2015–16−227
2016–17 †−531
2017–18−200
2018–19 ‡−215
2019–20+52
2020–21−123
2021–22+112
2022–23 †+91

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