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

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 810 people in, 599 out. Most were moving between North Carolina counties.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+211 people
+126 households
Arrivals' income
$72.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$46.8k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Yancey 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 6 in 10 already lived in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Mitchell County129
  2. Buncombe County109
  3. Madison County63
  4. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)509

Where did people go?

About 7 in 10 who left stayed in North Carolina. People, 2022–23.

  1. Mitchell County128
  2. Buncombe County102
  3. Madison County45
  4. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)324

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
Smaller moves from the Midwest
withheld
Smaller moves to the Northeast
withheld
Smaller moves to the Midwest
withheld
Smaller moves to the West
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Yancey usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2015–16.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+12622–23††‡†
Net migration of Yancey County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+95
2014–15 †−22
2015–16+53
2016–17 †+207
2017–18+137
2018–19 ‡+39
2019–20+155
2020–21+152
2021–22+124
2022–23 †+126

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