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Carolina Border
Union, Mecklenburg (NC) + York, Lancaster, Chester (SC) - counties straddling the NC/SC state line in the Charlotte metro. Membership editable in admin/config. Region totals sum reported member-county flows only — they do not recover county-pair flows the IRS suppressed for privacy.
In the IRS's 2022–2023 Statistics of Income migration data, Carolina Border recorded 39,208 households (61,943 people) moving in and 33,417 households (55,394 people) moving out — a net gained of 5,791 households and $309.67M in reported adjusted gross income.
The single largest recorded source of newcomers was Cabarrus County, NC: 2,477 households (4,427 people) moved from there, representing $172.28M in reported income.
At the state level, no state sent more newcomers into Carolina Border than North Carolina, which accounted for 13,629 households and $909.11M in reported AGI.
Inbound (reported)
$3.23B
39,208 households · 61,943 people
Outbound (reported)
$2.92B
33,417 households · 55,394 people
Net (reported)
$309.67M
5,791 households · 6,549 people
States sending newcomers
Shaded by reported AGI coming from each state. Hover a state for numbers. County-to-county detail below.
Top origin counties
| County | Households | People | Reported AGI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cabarrus County, NC | 2,477 | 4,427 | $172.28M |
| Wake County, NC | 1,389 | 2,010 | $104.94M |
| Gaston County, NC | 1,843 | 3,271 | $100.69M |
| Iredell County, NC | 1,109 | 1,774 | $99.00M |
| Cook County, IL | 467 | 754 | $70.22M |
| Guilford County, NC | 913 | 1,307 | $62.09M |
| Charleston County, SC | 422 | 596 | $54.22M |
| New York County, NY | 291 | 419 | $50.12M |
| Maricopa County, AZ | 412 | 715 | $46.11M |
| Miami-Dade County, FL | 457 | 769 | $45.48M |
| Los Angeles County, CA | 426 | 723 | $41.20M |
| Fulton County, GA | 410 | 556 | $40.09M |
| Richland County, SC | 730 | 1,081 | $39.10M |
| Suffolk County, NY | 447 | 808 | $37.46M |
| Lincoln County, NC | 392 | 638 | $34.55M |
| Forsyth County, NC | 561 | 806 | $34.52M |
| Greenville County, SC | 494 | 703 | $34.48M |
| Palm Beach County, FL | 322 | 508 | $34.09M |
| Broward County, FL | 433 | 748 | $33.24M |
| King County, WA | 191 | 336 | $31.75M |
“Where newcomers came from” excludes moves within Carolina Border itself. Switch to outbound to see the other direction.