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Migration Trends
King County (WA)
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.
-34,774 -17,387 0 17,387 34,774 2020 2021 2022 2023
2019→2020: 111,307 out, 89,785 in, net +21,522
2020→2021: 117,521 out, 87,283 in, net +30,238
2021→2022: 112,715 out, 90,304 in, net +22,411
2022→2023: 96,584 out, 84,789 in, net +11,795
Where King County, WA's Leavers Went, 2022→2023
Each number below is people who moved specifically from King County, WA 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.
Snohomish County (WA) 17,266
Pierce County (WA) 16,244
Maricopa County (AZ) 2,460
Los Angeles County (CA) 2,375
Kitsap County (WA) 2,186
Santa Clara County (CA) 1,725
Thurston County (WA) 1,680
San Diego County (CA) 1,592
Whatcom County (WA) 1,433
Spokane County (WA) 1,175
Where King County, WA's Arrivals Came From, 2022→2023
Each number below is people who moved specifically from that one county to King County, WA, in this one year -- not that county's own total loss to everywhere else.
Snohomish County (WA) 11,026
Pierce County (WA) 9,505
Los Angeles County (CA) 3,138
Santa Clara County (CA) 2,036
Maricopa County (AZ) 1,817
San Diego County (CA) 1,591
Kitsap County (WA) 1,290
Orange County (CA) 1,266
Cook County (IL) 1,209
Multnomah County (OR) 1,188