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Investigating the Overlooked

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Migration Trends
Kent County (MI)
Net Domestic Migration, 2019–2023
Real IRS tax-return address changes, not a Census population estimate -- people who actually filed from a different county the following year. Positive means more people left than arrived; negative means the reverse. See the reporting-vs-reality read of this same data for how this compares against the Census's own population-change numbers.
-4,531 -2,266 0 2,266 4,531 2020 2021 2022 2023
2019→2020: 21,543 out, 18,077 in, net +3,466
2020→2021: 21,140 out, 17,200 in, net +3,940
2021→2022: 21,018 out, 17,702 in, net +3,316
2022→2023: 19,536 out, 17,873 in, net +1,663
Where Kent County, MI's Leavers Went, 2022→2023
Each number below is people who moved specifically from Kent County, MI to that one county, in this one year -- not that county's own total gain from every source. Select it in the picker above to see its own totals.
Ottawa County (MI) 4,720
Allegan County (MI) 1,226
Montcalm County (MI) 1,080
Barry County (MI) 960
Muskegon County (MI) 920
Ionia County (MI) 887
Newaygo County (MI) 690
Oakland County (MI) 595
Kalamazoo County (MI) 506
Cook County (IL) 471
Where Kent County, MI's Arrivals Came From, 2022→2023
Each number below is people who moved specifically from that one county to Kent County, MI, in this one year -- not that county's own total loss to everywhere else.
Ottawa County (MI) 3,694
Allegan County (MI) 909
Montcalm County (MI) 810
Muskegon County (MI) 798
Kalamazoo County (MI) 691
Oakland County (MI) 683
Barry County (MI) 615
Ionia County (MI) 593
Newaygo County (MI) 523
Ingham County (MI) 521