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Charlotte Core

Mecklenburg, Union, Gaston, Cabarrus (NC) - immediate urban/suburban core of the Charlotte MSA. 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, Charlotte Core recorded 39,792 households (62,848 people) moving in and 33,752 households (56,525 people) moving out — a net gained of 6,040 households and $265.82M in reported adjusted gross income.

The single largest recorded source of newcomers was York County, SC: 1,990 households (3,239 people) moved from there, representing $126.57M in reported income.

At the state level, no state sent more newcomers into Charlotte Core than North Carolina, which accounted for 12,399 households and $794.82M in reported AGI.

Inbound (reported)

$3.24B

39,792 households · 62,848 people

Outbound (reported)

$2.97B

33,752 households · 56,525 people

Net (reported)

$265.82M

6,040 households · 6,323 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

CountyHouseholdsPeopleReported AGI
York County, SC1,9903,239$126.57M
Iredell County, NC1,3652,240$115.38M
Wake County, NC1,5172,202$114.24M
Guilford County, NC1,0551,552$69.19M
Cook County, IL458733$66.33M
Lancaster County, SC6871,222$61.54M
Lincoln County, NC8031,385$55.28M
Rowan County, NC1,1581,997$54.50M
New York County, NY291419$50.12M
Maricopa County, AZ434751$48.34M
Miami-Dade County, FL493839$46.06M
Charleston County, SC309436$45.97M
Forsyth County, NC668993$42.84M
Los Angeles County, CA439718$41.23M
Fulton County, GA411565$40.11M
Durham County, NC497722$35.98M
Palm Beach County, FL311495$32.93M
Broward County, FL459784$32.80M
King County, WA191336$31.75M
Suffolk County, NY399689$31.68M

Where newcomers came from” excludes moves within Charlotte Core itself. Switch to outbound to see the other direction.