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IRS tax-return data · 2022–2023

New Jersey Migration: Who Moved In, Who Moved Out

Where people who left New Jersey 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

173,739

People, from other states, 2022–2023

Moved out

203,610

People, to other states, 2022–2023

Net

−29,871

People: moved in minus moved out

Net income

−$2.56 billion

Arrivals’ income minus leavers’, earned in 2022

Between the 2022 and 2023 filing seasons, 173,739 people appear on tax returns that moved into New Jersey from another state, and 203,610 on returns that moved out. On balance New Jersey lost 29,871 people to the rest of the country. The households that arrived reported $11.0 billion in income and the ones that left reported $13.6 billion.

Its largest net gain came from New York (+34,749), and its largest net loss was to Florida (−20,579).

Where people who left New Jersey went

  1. 1New York38,722
  2. 2Florida34,761
  3. 3Pennsylvania29,887
  4. 4Texas11,408
  5. 5North Carolina10,675
  6. 6California9,468
  7. 7Virginia6,905
  8. 8Georgia6,884
  9. 9South Carolina6,585
  10. 10Massachusetts4,973
Top 10 destinations for people leaving New Jersey, 2022–2023. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division.

Where new arrivals came from

  1. 1New York73,471
  2. 2Pennsylvania25,412
  3. 3Florida14,182
  4. 4California7,479
  5. 5Texas5,331
  6. 6Virginia4,139
  7. 7North Carolina4,135
  8. 8Massachusetts3,943
  9. 9Maryland3,879
  10. 10Connecticut3,165
Top 10 origins of people moving to New Jersey, 2022–2023. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division.

New Jersey and every other state

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

StateMoved in fromMoved out toNet
Alabama472721−249
Alaska171190−19
Arizona1,3242,040−716
Arkansas243373−130
California7,4799,468−1,989
Colorado1,4242,150−726
Connecticut3,1653,556−391
Delaware1,9714,117−2,146
District of Columbia6691,036−367
Florida14,18234,761−20,579
Georgia3,1316,884−3,753
Hawaii415456−41
Idaho155206−51
Illinois2,3532,576−223
Indiana7471,191−444
Iowa323331−8
Kansas372444−72
Kentucky372636−264
Louisiana437542−105
Maine406750−344
Maryland3,8794,786−907
Massachusetts3,9434,973−1,030
Michigan1,1321,449−317
Minnesota551658−107
Mississippi247260−13
Missouri655741−86
Montana120174−54
Nebraska166228−62
Nevada6831,105−422
New Hampshire431741−310
New Mexico271303−32
New York73,47138,722+34,749
North Carolina4,13510,675−6,540
North Dakota107132−25
Ohio1,8372,570−733
Oklahoma318432−114
Oregon448543−95
Pennsylvania25,41229,887−4,475
Rhode Island667776−109
South Carolina1,7606,585−4,825
South Dakota101191−90
Tennessee1,0572,437−1,380
Texas5,33111,408−6,077
Utah431593−162
Vermont307560−253
Virginia4,1396,905−2,766
Washington1,5402,135−595
West Virginia273527−254
Wisconsin452604−152
Wyoming6482−18
Migration between New Jersey 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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