IRS tax-return data · 2022–2023

Wyoming Migration: Who Moved In, Who Moved Out

Where people who left Wyoming 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

22,038

People, from other states, 2022–2023

Moved out

21,663

People, to other states, 2022–2023

Net

+375

People: moved in minus moved out

Net income

$149 million

Arrivals’ income minus leavers’, earned in 2022

Between the 2022 and 2023 filing seasons, 22,038 people appear on tax returns that moved into Wyoming from another state, and 21,663 on returns that moved out. On balance Wyoming gained 375 people to the rest of the country. The households that arrived reported $1.01 billion in income and the ones that left reported $866 million.

Its largest net gain came from Colorado (+928), and its largest net loss was to Idaho (−271).

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 Wyoming went

1Colorado2,897
2Utah1,667
3Texas1,575
4Idaho1,179
5Montana1,120
6Arizona1,049
7California988
8Florida942
9South Dakota796
10Nebraska687

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

Where new arrivals came from

1Colorado3,825
2California1,915
3Utah1,613
4Texas1,364
5Montana1,108
6Idaho908
7Arizona886
8Washington761
9Florida748
10Oregon676

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

Wyoming and every other state

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

State	Moved in from	Moved out to	Net
Alabama	150	214	−64
Alaska	178	225	−47
Arizona	886	1,049	−163
Arkansas	141	208	−67
California	1,915	988	+927
Colorado	3,825	2,897	+928
Connecticut	58	26	+32
Delaware	27	37	−10
District of Columbia	20	29	−9
Florida	748	942	−194
Georgia	311	291	+20
Hawaii	83	146	−63
Idaho	908	1,179	−271
Illinois	285	223	+62
Indiana	196	215	−19
Iowa	135	205	−70
Kansas	291	225	+66
Kentucky	87	162	−75
Louisiana	141	122	+19
Maine	33	71	−38
Maryland	127	125	+2
Massachusetts	107	78	+29
Michigan	282	292	−10
Minnesota	299	274	+25
Mississippi	88	78	+10
Missouri	267	440	−173
Montana	1,108	1,120	−12
Nebraska	638	687	−49
Nevada	493	463	+30
New Hampshire	37	37	0
New Jersey	82	64	+18
New Mexico	294	354	−60
New York	244	228	+16
North Carolina	291	376	−85
North Dakota	350	392	−42
Ohio	249	247	+2
Oklahoma	300	488	−188
Oregon	676	414	+262
Pennsylvania	232	221	+11
Rhode Island	withheld	withheld	—
South Carolina	186	259	−73
South Dakota	623	796	−173
Tennessee	283	312	−29
Texas	1,364	1,575	−211
Utah	1,613	1,667	−54
Vermont	37	32	+5
Virginia	314	275	+39
Washington	761	577	+184
West Virginia	53	69	−16
Wisconsin	222	269	−47

Migration between Wyoming 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 Wyoming this applies to Rhode Island.

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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