Where households are arriving from and leaving for, county by county — built on official federal tax-filer data, not marketing estimates.
+6,212 net households from other states
Arrived from other states
54,541
households, 2022-2023
Left for other states
48,329
households, 2022-2023
Moved within Alabama
64,836
households changed county, stayed in state
+6,212 net households — Arrivals from other states and departures to them are close in volume — arrivals edge ahead by 6,212 households.
That lead is growing — up 138% on five years ago.
Another 583 households arrived from abroad.
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Net household change, five years
Every move in or out of Alabama, including from abroad — so the latest bar can differ slightly from the state-to-state figure above.
+2,595
18–19
+7,273
19–20
+8,733
20–21
+8,473
21–22
+6,166
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.
Birmingham · Jefferson County — the busiest moving market in Alabama.
Where Alabama 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 Alabama from another state report
$66,698 in average annual income;
those leaving for another state report
$64,241.
The two groups earn about the same.
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 40% of moves
unattributed to a specific county, because flows too small to publish are grouped into regional buckets.
67 of Alabama's counties have published data.