IRS tax-return data · 2022–2023

New Hampshire Migration: Who Moved In, Who Moved Out

Where people who left New Hampshire 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

40,918

People, from other states, 2022–2023

Moved out

36,723

People, to other states, 2022–2023

Net

+4,195

People: moved in minus moved out

Net income

$756 million

Arrivals’ income minus leavers’, earned in 2022

Between the 2022 and 2023 filing seasons, 40,918 people appear on tax returns that moved into New Hampshire from another state, and 36,723 on returns that moved out. On balance New Hampshire gained 4,195 people to the rest of the country. The households that arrived reported $2.91 billion in income and the ones that left reported $2.15 billion.

Its largest net gain came from Massachusetts (+7,000), and its largest net loss was to Florida (−1,533).

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 New Hampshire went

1Massachusetts9,174
2Florida4,426
3Maine3,878
4Vermont1,865
5New York1,642
6North Carolina1,637
7Texas1,323
8California1,056
9South Carolina1,000
10Connecticut903

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

Where new arrivals came from

1Massachusetts16,174
2Florida2,893
3Maine2,827
4New York2,161
5Vermont1,994
6Connecticut1,447
7California1,432
8Texas987
9Virginia884
10North Carolina845

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

New Hampshire and every other state

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

State	Moved in from	Moved out to	Net
Alabama	116	202	−86
Alaska	105	64	+41
Arizona	390	551	−161
Arkansas	88	96	−8
California	1,432	1,056	+376
Colorado	622	576	+46
Connecticut	1,447	903	+544
Delaware	85	121	−36
District of Columbia	117	146	−29
Florida	2,893	4,426	−1,533
Georgia	369	634	−265
Hawaii	133	145	−12
Idaho	80	83	−3
Illinois	404	304	+100
Indiana	199	174	+25
Iowa	74	78	−4
Kansas	132	60	+72
Kentucky	117	158	−41
Louisiana	107	97	+10
Maine	2,827	3,878	−1,051
Maryland	429	369	+60
Massachusetts	16,174	9,174	+7,000
Michigan	235	278	−43
Minnesota	153	157	−4
Mississippi	67	55	+12
Missouri	151	166	−15
Montana	80	142	−62
Nebraska	55	35	+20
Nevada	200	151	+49
New Jersey	741	431	+310
New Mexico	88	89	−1
New York	2,161	1,642	+519
North Carolina	845	1,637	−792
North Dakota	22	20	+2
Ohio	389	449	−60
Oklahoma	121	133	−12
Oregon	258	181	+77
Pennsylvania	809	798	+11
Rhode Island	660	524	+136
South Carolina	405	1,000	−595
South Dakota	49	62	−13
Tennessee	364	471	−107
Texas	987	1,323	−336
Utah	202	265	−63
Vermont	1,994	1,865	+129
Virginia	884	884	0
Washington	410	382	+28
West Virginia	65	72	−7
Wisconsin	146	179	−33
Wyoming	37	37	0

Migration between New Hampshire 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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