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IRS tax-return data · 2022–2023

Illinois Migration: Who Moved In, Who Moved Out

Where people who left Illinois 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 . The IRS publishes one edition a year.

Moved in

179,622

People, from other states, 2022–2023

Moved out

233,804

People, to other states, 2022–2023

Net

−54,182

People: moved in minus moved out

Net income

−$5.99 billion

Arrivals’ income minus leavers’, earned in 2022

Between the 2022 and 2023 filing seasons, 179,622 people appear on tax returns that moved into Illinois from another state, and 233,804 on returns that moved out. On balance Illinois lost 54,182 people to the rest of the country. The households that arrived reported $9.25 billion in income and the ones that left reported $15.2 billion.

Its largest net gain came from Pennsylvania (+360), and its largest net loss was to Florida (−10,583).

Where people who left Illinois went

  1. 1Florida24,958
  2. 2Indiana22,165
  3. 3Texas21,406
  4. 4Wisconsin17,253
  5. 5California14,931
  6. 6Missouri13,469
  7. 7Tennessee8,887
  8. 8Arizona8,751
  9. 9Iowa8,582
  10. 10Michigan8,375
Top 10 destinations for people leaving Illinois, 2022–2023. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division.

Where new arrivals came from

  1. 1Indiana16,199
  2. 2Florida14,375
  3. 3California13,617
  4. 4Texas13,611
  5. 5Wisconsin11,973
  6. 6Missouri11,785
  7. 7Michigan7,894
  8. 8Iowa7,326
  9. 9New York6,388
  10. 10Ohio5,670
Top 10 origins of people moving to Illinois, 2022–2023. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division.

Illinois and every other state

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

StateMoved in fromMoved out toNet
Alabama1,5672,370−803
Alaska363400−37
Arizona5,6348,751−3,117
Arkansas1,4801,834−354
California13,61714,931−1,314
Colorado4,6096,569−1,960
Connecticut1,078972+106
Delaware299258+41
District of Columbia751941−190
Florida14,37524,958−10,583
Georgia4,9597,240−2,281
Hawaii665706−41
Idaho439534−95
Indiana16,19922,165−5,966
Iowa7,3268,582−1,256
Kansas1,6521,631+21
Kentucky2,8833,326−443
Louisiana1,3161,071+245
Maine289325−36
Maryland1,9942,041−47
Massachusetts2,5162,546−30
Michigan7,8948,375−481
Minnesota3,8473,815+32
Mississippi1,2971,387−90
Missouri11,78513,469−1,684
Montana389537−148
Nebraska1,0811,082−1
Nevada2,0842,675−591
New Hampshire304404−100
New Jersey2,5762,353+223
New Mexico699778−79
New York6,3886,580−192
North Carolina3,8026,404−2,602
North Dakota364361+3
Ohio5,6705,492+178
Oklahoma1,2721,533−261
Oregon1,3681,405−37
Pennsylvania3,2432,883+360
Rhode Island276349−73
South Carolina1,7283,669−1,941
South Dakota395537−142
Tennessee4,7558,887−4,132
Texas13,61121,406−7,795
Utah1,1341,286−152
Vermont176172+4
Virginia3,6194,085−466
Washington3,3273,884−557
West Virginia331307+24
Wisconsin11,97317,253−5,280
Wyoming223285−62
Migration between Illinois 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 readPublisher’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 readPublisher’s page

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