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California: Human Rivers
Where Americans move, one year at a time. Follow state-to-state tax-return migration, separate incoming and outgoing moves, and compare households, people proxies and reported income.
Source: IRS SOI state migration; U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimates and 2024 Gazetteer. · Source release, rights & limitations
California: 248,447 returns reported into the state in 2019–2020. Largest reported connection: New York (23,305).
| Place / record | Value | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 23,305 returns | |
| Texas | 21,571 returns | |
| Washington | 16,548 returns | |
| Arizona | 14,675 returns | |
| Nevada | 14,070 returns | |
| Florida | 13,228 returns | |
| Illinois | 11,131 returns | |
| Oregon | 9,828 returns | |
| Colorado | 9,111 returns | |
| Virginia | 8,582 returns | |
| Massachusetts | 7,917 returns | |
| New Jersey | 6,660 returns | |
| Pennsylvania | 6,279 returns | |
| Georgia | 6,238 returns | |
| North Carolina | 6,202 returns | |
| Hawaii | 5,065 returns | |
| Michigan | 5,003 returns | |
| Maryland | 4,946 returns | |
| Ohio | 4,919 returns | |
| Utah | 4,304 returns | |
| Minnesota | 3,533 returns | |
| Tennessee | 3,348 returns | |
| Missouri | 3,259 returns | |
| Indiana | 2,893 returns | |
| Wisconsin | 2,770 returns | |
| Connecticut | 2,686 returns | |
| Idaho | 2,464 returns | |
| District of Columbia | 2,330 returns | |
| New Mexico | 2,311 returns | |
| Louisiana | 2,145 returns | |
| South Carolina | 2,131 returns | |
| Oklahoma | 2,088 returns | |
| Kansas | 1,817 returns | |
| Alabama | 1,502 returns | |
| Iowa | 1,356 returns | |
| Kentucky | 1,305 returns | |
| Arkansas | 1,233 returns | |
| Alaska | 1,215 returns | |
| Nebraska | 1,194 returns | |
| Montana | 1,134 returns | |
| Mississippi | 1,009 returns | |
| Rhode Island | 822 returns | |
| New Hampshire | 732 returns | |
| North Dakota | 672 returns | |
| Wyoming | 574 returns | |
| Maine | 559 returns | |
| South Dakota | 521 returns | |
| Delaware | 443 returns | |
| Vermont | 423 returns | |
| West Virginia | 396 returns |
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Source: IRS SOI state migration; U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimates and 2024 Gazetteer. · Source release, rights & limitations
Florida's incoming streams and outgoing streams describe different groups of matched tax returns. Switch direction to see both.
Source: IRS SOI state migration; U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimates and 2024 Gazetteer. · Source release, rights & limitations
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California: 248,447 returns reported into the state in 2019–2020. Largest reported connection: New York (23,305).
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Accessible source values
| Place / record | Value | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 23,305 returns | |
| Texas | 21,571 returns | |
| Washington | 16,548 returns | |
| Arizona | 14,675 returns | |
| Nevada | 14,070 returns | |
| Florida | 13,228 returns | |
| Illinois | 11,131 returns | |
| Oregon | 9,828 returns | |
| Colorado | 9,111 returns | |
| Virginia | 8,582 returns | |
| Massachusetts | 7,917 returns | |
| New Jersey | 6,660 returns | |
| Pennsylvania | 6,279 returns | |
| Georgia | 6,238 returns | |
| North Carolina | 6,202 returns | |
| Hawaii | 5,065 returns | |
| Michigan | 5,003 returns | |
| Maryland | 4,946 returns | |
| Ohio | 4,919 returns | |
| Utah | 4,304 returns | |
| Minnesota | 3,533 returns | |
| Tennessee | 3,348 returns | |
| Missouri | 3,259 returns | |
| Indiana | 2,893 returns | |
| Wisconsin | 2,770 returns | |
| Connecticut | 2,686 returns | |
| Idaho | 2,464 returns | |
| District of Columbia | 2,330 returns | |
| New Mexico | 2,311 returns | |
| Louisiana | 2,145 returns | |
| South Carolina | 2,131 returns | |
| Oklahoma | 2,088 returns | |
| Kansas | 1,817 returns | |
| Alabama | 1,502 returns | |
| Iowa | 1,356 returns | |
| Kentucky | 1,305 returns | |
| Arkansas | 1,233 returns | |
| Alaska | 1,215 returns | |
| Nebraska | 1,194 returns | |
| Montana | 1,134 returns | |
| Mississippi | 1,009 returns | |
| Rhode Island | 822 returns | |
| New Hampshire | 732 returns | |
| North Dakota | 672 returns | |
| Wyoming | 574 returns | |
| Maine | 559 returns | |
| South Dakota | 521 returns | |
| Delaware | 443 returns | |
| Vermont | 423 returns | |
| West Virginia | 396 returns |
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Sources, rights & limitations
Source: IRS SOI state migration; U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimates and 2024 Gazetteer. Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain), U.S. Census Bureau/us-atlas (public domain). Ancient Earth uses the reconstructed source-model land instead.
Data release: 2026-10-04. Retrieved 2026-10-04T00:00:00Z. Commercial use: approved. Export rights: approved.
- https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2024_Gazetteer/2024_Gaz_state_national.zip
- https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2024/state/totals/NST-EST2024-ALLDATA.csv
- https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/stateoutflow1920.csv
- https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/stateinflow1920.csv
- https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/stateoutflow2021.csv
- https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/stateinflow2021.csv
- https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/stateoutflow2122.csv
- https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/stateinflow2122.csv
- https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/stateoutflow2223.csv
- https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/stateinflow2223.csv
License: https://www.irs.gov/about-irs/use-of-content-from-irsgov
- These are filing-year address changes on matched tax returns, not a complete census of movers. Mailing addresses may differ from residences.
- Returns approximate households; exemptions/individuals approximate people. AGI is year-2 reported adjusted gross income, includes deficits, and is not wealth or money transported.
- Bilateral streams use outflow records once. Inflow and outflow AGI can differ by $1,000 due to source rounding; published direction totals retain their own values.
- Suppressed (-1) and absent bilateral cells remain unknown. The 2022–2023 archive omits six bilateral cells. Published totals are not permission to infer their values.
- 2019–2020 through 2021–2022 use the prior matching series. 2022–2023 is a new series: enhanced matching adds about 5% of returns, and disclosure procedures changed; do not interpret that break as migration growth.
- Per-capita figures divide by the selected state's July 1 population in the destination filing year from Census Vintage 2024, per 10,000 residents. They compare tax-record flows with all residents and are not the percentage of residents who moved.
- Foreign flows, same-state county moves and nonmigrants are separate source categories and are excluded from the state-to-state streams. Curves are illustrative, not travel routes.
Units: returns: matched returns (household proxy) · exemptions: reported individuals (people proxy) · agi: nominal USD, year-2 reported AGI · population: residents, July 1, Census Vintage 2024.
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