This is a list of U.S. states and the District of Columbia by annual net migration. The first table lists U.S. states and the District of Columbia by annual net domestic migration, while the second table lists U.S. states and the District of Columbia by annual net international migration. There is a separate table for the U.S. territories. The term net domestic migration describes the total number of people moving to a state from another state minus people moving to another state from that state. The term net international migration describes the total number of people moving to a state from another country minus people moving to another country from that state.
National rank |
State | Total net domestic migration (2020–2022) [1] |
Net domestic migration rate per 1,000 inhabitants |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Florida | 622,476 | 28.90 |
2 | Texas | 475,252 | 16.31 |
3 | North Carolina | 211,867 | 20.29 |
4 | Arizona | 182,362 | 25.50 |
5 | South Carolina | 165,948 | 32.42 |
6 | Tennessee | 146,403 | 21.18 |
7 | Georgia | 128,089 | 11.96 |
8 | Idaho | 88,647 | 48.20 |
9 | Alabama | 65,355 | 13.01 |
10 | Oklahoma | 56,807 | 14.35 |
11 | Nevada | 56,317 | 18.14 |
12 | Utah | 47,125 | 14.40 |
13 | Montana | 39,041 | 36.01 |
14 | Arkansas | 38,055 | 12.64 |
15 | Maine | 30,642 | 22.49 |
16 | Delaware | 27,119 | 27.39 |
17 | Indiana | 22,694 | 3.34 |
18 | Missouri | 20,233 | 3.29 |
19 | Colorado | 17,984 | 3.11 |
20 | New Hampshire | 16,038 | 11.64 |
21 | South Dakota | 14,711 | 16.59 |
22 | Kentucky | 14,102 | 3.13 |
23 | Vermont | 5,893 | 9.16 |
24 | Wyoming | 4,356 | 7.55 |
25 | West Virginia | 2,460 | 1.37 |
26 | Connecticut | −76 | −0.02 |
27 | Oregon | −776 | −0.18 |
28 | New Mexico | −5,058 | −2.39 |
29 | Rhode Island | −5,281 | −4.81 |
30 | Iowa | −6,877 | −2.16 |
31 | North Dakota | −7,186 | −9.22 |
32 | Washington | −7,376 | −0.96 |
33 | Nebraska | −11,108 | −5.66 |
34 | Wisconsin | −11,383 | −1.93 |
35 | Mississippi | −11,408 | −3.85 |
36 | Alaska | −11,412 | −15.56 |
37 | Kansas | −14,392 | −4.90 |
38 | Pennsylvania | −16,218 | −1.25 |
— | District of Columbia | −26,210 | −38.01 |
39 | Hawaii | −29,684 | −20.40 |
40 | Virginia | −29,775 | −3.45 |
41 | Minnesota | −37,377 | −6.55 |
42 | Ohio | −39,915 | −3.38 |
43 | Michigan | −43,188 | −4.29 |
44 | Maryland | −68,287 | −11.05 |
45 | Louisiana | −80,278 | −17.24 |
46 | New Jersey | −107,749 | −11.60 |
47 | Massachusetts | −110,866 | −15.77 |
48 | Illinois | −282,048 | −22.01 |
49 | New York | −664,921 | −32.91 |
50 | California | −871,127 | −22.03 |
National rank |
State | Total net international migration (2020–2022) [1] |
Net international migration rate per 1,000 inhabitants |
---|---|---|---|
— | United States | 1,406,845 | 4.24 |
1 | Florida | 175,333 | 8.14 |
2 | California | 171,223 | 4.33 |
3 | Texas | 164,062 | 5.63 |
4 | New York | 108,036 | 5.35 |
5 | Massachusetts | 61,263 | 8.71 |
6 | New Jersey | 55,037 | 5.92 |
7 | Virginia | 52,762 | 6.11 |
8 | Washington | 52,172 | 6.77 |
9 | Illinois | 43,472 | 3.39 |
10 | Georgia | 38,177 | 3.56 |
11 | Pennsylvania | 37,564 | 2.89 |
12 | North Carolina | 37,031 | 3.55 |
13 | Ohio | 33,911 | 2.87 |
14 | Maryland | 33,300 | 5.39 |
15 | Arizona | 30,489 | 4.26 |
16 | Michigan | 26,265 | 2.61 |
17 | Connecticut | 22,923 | 6.36 |
18 | Indiana | 21,897 | 3.23 |
19 | Minnesota | 20,012 | 3.51 |
20 | South Carolina | 15,017 | 2.93 |
21 | Colorado | 14,522 | 2.52 |
22 | Missouri | 14,190 | 2.31 |
23 | Nevada | 13,911 | 4.48 |
24 | Iowa | 13,248 | 4.15 |
25 | Wisconsin | 11,578 | 1.96 |
26 | Louisiana | 11,481 | 2.46 |
27 | Tennessee | 11,418 | 1.34 |
28 | Oregon | 9,812 | 2.32 |
29 | New Mexico | 8,311 | 3.92 |
30 | Oklahoma | 8,100 | 2.05 |
31 | Hawaii | 7,953 | 5.46 |
32 | Kansas | 7,681 | 2.61 |
33 | Utah | 7,587 | 2.32 |
34 | Alabama | 6,529 | 1.30 |
— | District of Columbia | 6,354 | 9.21 |
35 | Kentucky | 6,328 | 1.40 |
36 | Nebraska | 5,694 | 2.90 |
37 | New Hampshire | 5,530 | 4.01 |
38 | Arkansas | 4,754 | 1.58 |
39 | South Dakota | 3,944 | 4.45 |
40 | Rhode Island | 3,948 | 3.32 |
41 | Maine | 3,595 | 2.64 |
42 | Delaware | 3,454 | 3.49 |
43 | Alaska | 3,306 | 4.51 |
44 | Idaho | 2,599 | 1.41 |
45 | Montana | 2,557 | 2.36 |
46 | West Virginia | 2,536 | 1.41 |
47 | Mississippi | 2,283 | 0.77 |
48 | North Dakota | 1,752 | 2.25 |
49 | Vermont | 1,448 | 2.25 |
50 | Wyoming | 496 | 0.86 |
Territory | Net migration rate per 1,000 inhabitants (2020) [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] |
Net migration rate per 1,000 inhabitants (2021) [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] |
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American Samoa | –26.1 | –32.18 |
Guam | –11.0 | -10.98 |
Northern Mariana Islands | –15.4 | –13.67 |
Puerto Rico | –14.1 | -13 |
U.S. Virgin Islands | –7.5 | -7.42 |