Who's moving to and from Yellowstone County, Montana?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 6,803 people in, 6,370 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

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Net change
+433 people
+306 households
Arrivals' income
$65.0k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$65.8k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Yellowstone County's newcomers came from in Montana

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other Montana counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Maricopa County, AZ, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

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

  1. Gallatin County350
  2. Stillwater County191
  3. Carbon County178
  4. Big Horn County164
  5. Maricopa County, AZ157
  6. Missoula County155
  7. Cascade County135
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)3,866

Where did people go?

About 6 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Gallatin County301
  2. Carbon County232
  3. Stillwater County179
  4. Big Horn County178
  5. Missoula County155
  6. Maricopa County, AZ147
  7. Lewis and Clark County132
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)3,852

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
46 people
Left for abroad
36 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Yellowstone usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2017–18.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+30622–23††‡†
Net migration of Yellowstone County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−262
2014–15 †−79
2015–16−12
2016–17 †−113
2017–18+260
2018–19 ‡+322
2019–20+611
2020–21+818
2021–22+754
2022–23 †+306

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 Yellowstone County, Montana?” movedwhere.com/county/yellowstone-county-mt. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.