IRS tax-return data · 2022–2023

Florida Migration: Who Moved In, Who Moved Out

Where people who left Florida went, where its new arrivals came from, and the income that moved with them. Counted from the addresses on tax returns.

Source data last read October 10, 2026. The IRS publishes one edition a year.

Moved in

605,238

People, from other states, 2022–2023

Moved out

493,496

People, to other states, 2022–2023

Net

+111,742

People: moved in minus moved out

Net income

$20.6 billion

Arrivals’ income minus leavers’, earned in 2022

Between the 2022 and 2023 filing seasons, 605,238 people appear on tax returns that moved into Florida from another state, and 493,496 on returns that moved out. On balance Florida gained 111,742 people to the rest of the country. The households that arrived reported $43.4 billion in income and the ones that left reported $22.7 billion.

Its largest net gain came from New York (+39,343), and its largest net loss was to North Carolina (−9,835).

What this counts, and what it does not

These are tax returns, not a head count. The IRS compares the address on a return filed in 2022 with the address on the same taxpayer’s return filed in 2023. “People” is the number of individuals listed on those returns.

Anyone who did not file in both years is missing: many students, retirees and low earners with no filing requirement, and anyone whose two returns could not be matched. The real number of people who moved is higher.

The address is a mailing address, which is not always where someone lives, and a move is dated by when the return was filed, not when the truck was loaded.

Income is the adjusted gross income on the second return (earned in 2022), attributed to the state the household moved to. It measures the income of the people who moved, not money a state “lost” or “gained”: much of it is wages from a job that may itself have changed.

Moves to and from other countries, military post offices and the US territories are not included in the totals here, and the IRS withholds any state-to-state flow of fewer than ten returns.

Where people who left Florida went

1Georgia50,483
2Texas41,655
3North Carolina34,859
4New York32,133
5Tennessee21,857
6California21,724
7Virginia21,273
8Pennsylvania17,742
9Ohio17,631
10South Carolina16,939

Top 10 destinations for people leaving Florida, 2022–2023. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division.

Where new arrivals came from

1New York71,476
2Georgia40,689
3Texas35,016
4New Jersey34,761
5California34,248
6Pennsylvania27,392
7Virginia25,540
8North Carolina25,024
9Illinois24,958
10Ohio21,767

Top 10 origins of people moving to Florida, 2022–2023. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division.

Florida and every other state

People moving in each direction, and the difference. A positive net means Florida gained from that state.

State	Moved in from	Moved out to	Net
Alabama	12,289	15,260	−2,971
Alaska	1,916	1,502	+414
Arizona	8,474	7,446	+1,028
Arkansas	3,147	3,541	−394
California	34,248	21,724	+12,524
Colorado	15,384	13,183	+2,201
Connecticut	12,876	7,177	+5,699
Delaware	2,618	1,844	+774
District of Columbia	1,645	1,873	−228
Georgia	40,689	50,483	−9,794
Hawaii	2,977	2,493	+484
Idaho	1,892	1,423	+469
Illinois	24,958	14,375	+10,583
Indiana	13,343	12,410	+933
Iowa	3,537	2,849	+688
Kansas	3,802	3,278	+524
Kentucky	7,894	8,292	−398
Louisiana	5,814	4,590	+1,224
Maine	3,483	3,280	+203
Maryland	15,937	9,616	+6,321
Massachusetts	19,927	12,048	+7,879
Michigan	17,716	13,393	+4,323
Minnesota	8,727	4,925	+3,802
Mississippi	4,111	3,883	+228
Missouri	8,827	7,174	+1,653
Montana	1,217	1,151	+66
Nebraska	2,559	2,030	+529
Nevada	5,914	4,674	+1,240
New Hampshire	4,426	2,893	+1,533
New Jersey	34,761	14,182	+20,579
New Mexico	2,607	2,677	−70
New York	71,476	32,133	+39,343
North Carolina	25,024	34,859	−9,835
North Dakota	1,107	892	+215
Ohio	21,767	17,631	+4,136
Oklahoma	3,998	3,819	+179
Oregon	3,915	2,976	+939
Pennsylvania	27,392	17,742	+9,650
Rhode Island	3,739	2,315	+1,424
South Carolina	12,237	16,939	−4,702
South Dakota	1,282	1,000	+282
Tennessee	16,593	21,857	−5,264
Texas	35,016	41,655	−6,639
Utah	4,228	3,465	+763
Vermont	1,634	1,239	+395
Virginia	25,540	21,273	+4,267
Washington	10,597	8,416	+2,181
West Virginia	2,608	2,761	−153
Wisconsin	8,428	6,107	+2,321
Wyoming	942	748	+194

Migration between Florida and each other state, people on matched tax returns, 2022–2023.

Sources and methods

Every figure on this page comes from one of the datasets below and nowhere else. Nothing is estimated, interpolated or carried over from a previous edition. Where two sources measure something similar, they are reported separately rather than combined, because they are not measuring the same thing.

SOI Tax Stats: Migration Data 2022–2023, state-to-state outflow
Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
Covers
Returns filed in 2022 and 2023, 50 states and DC
Last read
October 10, 2026
The IRS matches each individual income tax return filed in 2022 to the same taxpayer’s return filed in 2023 and compares the addresses. People and income are taken from the second return, so the income is what those households earned in 2022. Amounts are published in thousands of dollars.
Exact file we read Publisher’s page
SOI Tax Stats: Migration Data 2022–2023, state-to-state inflow
Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
Covers
Returns filed in 2022 and 2023, 50 states and DC
Last read
October 10, 2026
The same flows listed by destination instead of origin. We read both files and publish a flow only when the two agree on it, which they do for every pair. The publisher’s page linked here is the IRS users guide, which defines every term used on this page.
Exact file we read Publisher’s page

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