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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 3,562 people in, 3,297 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+265 people
+147 households
Arrivals' income
$48.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$50.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Wilson 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 are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 7 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Wake County595
  2. Nash County540
  3. Johnston County299
  4. Wayne County199
  5. Pitt County164
  6. Edgecombe County149
  7. Greene County63
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)1,375

Where did people go?

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

  1. Nash County459
  2. Wake County428
  3. Johnston County248
  4. Edgecombe County219
  5. Pitt County206
  6. Wayne County203
  7. Greene County88
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)1,231

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
Net moves with Franklin County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Wilson usually growing from moves?

Mostly. More households arrived than left in 6 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+14722–23††‡†
Net migration of Wilson County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−39
2014–15 †−47
2015–16−20
2016–17 †+73
2017–18+69
2018–19 ‡+21
2019–20−22
2020–21+78
2021–22+163
2022–23 †+147

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