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IRS tax-return data · 2022–2023

Utah Migration: Who Moved In, Who Moved Out

Where people who left Utah 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

80,211

People, from other states, 2022–2023

Moved out

79,014

People, to other states, 2022–2023

Net

+1,197

People: moved in minus moved out

Net income

$477 million

Arrivals’ income minus leavers’, earned in 2022

Between the 2022 and 2023 filing seasons, 80,211 people appear on tax returns that moved into Utah from another state, and 79,014 on returns that moved out. On balance Utah gained 1,197 people to the rest of the country. The households that arrived reported $3.67 billion in income and the ones that left reported $3.20 billion.

Its largest net gain came from California (+5,759), and its largest net loss was to Texas (−969).

Where people who left Utah went

  1. 1California8,013
  2. 2Texas7,251
  3. 3Idaho6,276
  4. 4Arizona6,079
  5. 5Nevada4,490
  6. 6Florida4,228
  7. 7Washington3,975
  8. 8Colorado3,732
  9. 9Oregon2,447
  10. 10North Carolina2,194
Top 10 destinations for people leaving Utah, 2022–2023. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division.

Where new arrivals came from

  1. 1California13,772
  2. 2Idaho6,327
  3. 3Texas6,282
  4. 4Arizona6,014
  5. 5Nevada5,085
  6. 6Colorado4,080
  7. 7Washington3,764
  8. 8Florida3,465
  9. 9Oregon2,197
  10. 10Wyoming1,667
Top 10 origins of people moving to Utah, 2022–2023. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division.

Utah and every other state

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

StateMoved in fromMoved out toNet
Alabama525754−229
Alaska749607+142
Arizona6,0146,079−65
Arkansas427724−297
California13,7728,013+5,759
Colorado4,0803,732+348
Connecticut394293+101
Delaware10095+5
District of Columbia105120−15
Florida3,4654,228−763
Georgia1,3451,580−235
Hawaii1,3511,113+238
Idaho6,3276,276+51
Illinois1,2861,134+152
Indiana663868−205
Iowa452564−112
Kansas528690−162
Kentucky405677−272
Louisiana408305+103
Maine192267−75
Maryland722617+105
Massachusetts756625+131
Michigan9271,036−109
Minnesota794912−118
Mississippi266284−18
Missouri1,0801,596−516
Montana1,0391,188−149
Nebraska487513−26
Nevada5,0854,490+595
New Hampshire265202+63
New Jersey593431+162
New Mexico1,030901+129
New York1,3781,355+23
North Carolina1,5132,194−681
North Dakota413327+86
Ohio1,1031,232−129
Oklahoma712956−244
Oregon2,1972,447−250
Pennsylvania9711,002−31
Rhode Island8692−6
South Carolina6381,094−456
South Dakota283326−43
Tennessee1,0021,338−336
Texas6,2827,251−969
Vermont182192−10
Virginia1,5701,817−247
Washington3,7643,975−211
West Virginia121172−51
Wisconsin697717−20
Wyoming1,6671,613+54
Migration between Utah 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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