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IRS tax-return data · 2022–2023

Nebraska Migration: Who Moved In, Who Moved Out

Where people who left Nebraska 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

38,081

People, from other states, 2022–2023

Moved out

39,983

People, to other states, 2022–2023

Net

−1,902

People: moved in minus moved out

Net income

−$244 million

Arrivals’ income minus leavers’, earned in 2022

Between the 2022 and 2023 filing seasons, 38,081 people appear on tax returns that moved into Nebraska from another state, and 39,983 on returns that moved out. On balance Nebraska lost 1,902 people to the rest of the country. The households that arrived reported $1.32 billion in income and the ones that left reported $1.56 billion.

Its largest net gain came from California (+825), and its largest net loss was to Florida (−529).

Where people who left Nebraska went

  1. 1Iowa5,503
  2. 2Texas3,791
  3. 3Colorado2,752
  4. 4Florida2,559
  5. 5Kansas2,176
  6. 6Missouri1,875
  7. 7California1,716
  8. 8Arizona1,644
  9. 9South Dakota1,557
  10. 10Minnesota1,338
Top 10 destinations for people leaving Nebraska, 2022–2023. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division.

Where new arrivals came from

  1. 1Iowa5,090
  2. 2Texas3,390
  3. 3Colorado3,019
  4. 4California2,541
  5. 5Florida2,030
  6. 6Kansas1,947
  7. 7Missouri1,590
  8. 8South Dakota1,516
  9. 9Arizona1,326
  10. 10Illinois1,082
Top 10 origins of people moving to Nebraska, 2022–2023. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division.

Nebraska and every other state

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

StateMoved in fromMoved out toNet
Alabama328370−42
Alaska211152+59
Arizona1,3261,644−318
Arkansas366533−167
California2,5411,716+825
Colorado3,0192,752+267
Connecticut1221220
Delaware3143−12
District of Columbia3165−34
Florida2,0302,559−529
Georgia734668+66
Hawaii232182+50
Idaho325271+54
Illinois1,0821,081+1
Indiana444435+9
Iowa5,0905,503−413
Kansas1,9472,176−229
Kentucky220308−88
Louisiana274241+33
Maine6479−15
Maryland318339−21
Massachusetts219185+34
Michigan429410+19
Minnesota1,0401,338−298
Mississippi280173+107
Missouri1,5901,875−285
Montana231247−16
Nevada582425+157
New Hampshire3555−20
New Jersey228166+62
New Mexico260266−6
New York522509+13
North Carolina619848−229
North Dakota307296+11
Ohio531635−104
Oklahoma711676+35
Oregon369436−67
Pennsylvania411336+75
Rhode Island4795−48
South Carolina286391−105
South Dakota1,5161,557−41
Tennessee485673−188
Texas3,3903,791−401
Utah513487+26
Vermontwithheld46—
Virginia743759−16
Washington819831−12
West Virginia5254−2
Wisconsin444546−102
Wyoming687638+49
Migration between Nebraska and each other state, people on matched tax returns, 2022–2023.

“Withheld” means the IRS did not publish that flow because it involved fewer than ten returns. It is not zero, and it is small. For Nebraska this applies to Vermont.

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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