Where households are arriving from and leaving for, county by county — built on official federal tax-filer data, not marketing estimates.
1,598,251 households moved in or out · #2 busiest moving market in the U.S.
Arrived from other states
252,546
households, 2022-2023
Left for other states
353,055
households, 2022-2023
Moved within California
484,153
households changed county, stayed in state
-100,509 net households — For every 100 households that arrived from another state, about 140 left. California is a net loser to other states.
That loss is deepening — up 51% on five years ago.
Another 9,253 households arrived from abroad.
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Net household change, five years
Every move in or out of California, including from abroad — so the latest bar can differ slightly from the state-to-state figure above.
-70,625
18–19
-116,427
19–20
-158,053
20–21
-143,734
21–22
-106,347
22–23
Every county at a glance.
Gained households from other states
Lost households to other states
Circle size — households that moved in or out.
Los Angeles · Los Angeles County — the busiest moving market in California.
Where California is gaining from other states
Largest net state-to-state changes by county — same basis as the figures above, top eight only. Each city page adds the in-state picture.
Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows ranked by total volume. The IRS publishes only each county's largest partner states, so smaller streams are left out and these totals run below the headline figures.
Households arriving in California from another state report
$95,575 in average annual income;
those leaving for another state report
$102,147.
Departures out-earn arrivals — California is losing its higher earners.
How this works: IRS SOI County-to-County Migration Data, 2022-2023. The IRS compares the address on consecutive tax
returns, so every move here is a real filed household. The headline figures and county lists count moves that
crossed a state line; the five-year chart counts every move, including from abroad. The data publishes annually
with about a two-year lag, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 14% of moves
unattributed to a specific county, because flows too small to publish are grouped into regional buckets.
58 of California's counties have published data.