Where households are arriving from and leaving for, county by county — built on official federal tax-filer data, not marketing estimates.
564,543 households moved in or out · #8 busiest moving market in the U.S.
Arrived from other states
123,287
households, 2022-2023
Left for other states
135,386
households, 2022-2023
Moved within Pennsylvania
150,649
households changed county, stayed in state
-12,099 net households — Arrivals from other states and departures to them are close in volume — departures edge ahead by 12,099 households.
That loss is deepening — up 35% on five years ago.
Another 1,778 households arrived from abroad.
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Net household change, five years
Every move in or out of Pennsylvania, including from abroad — so the latest bar can differ slightly from the state-to-state figure above.
-9,744
18–19
-3,331
19–20
-8,931
20–21
-15,263
21–22
-13,115
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.
Philadelphia · Philadelphia County — the busiest moving market in Pennsylvania.
Where Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania from another state report
$76,397 in average annual income;
those leaving for another state report
$85,717.
Departures out-earn arrivals — Pennsylvania 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 27% of moves
unattributed to a specific county, because flows too small to publish are grouped into regional buckets.
67 of Pennsylvania's counties have published data.