Who's moving to Delaware
Where households are arriving from and leaving for, county by county — built on official federal tax-filer data, not marketing estimates.
+4,054 net households from other states · #15 of 51 states
Arrived from other states
21,280
households, 2022-2023
Left for other states
17,226
households, 2022-2023
Moved within Delaware
4,326
households changed county, stayed in state
+4,054 net households — For every 100 households that left Delaware for another state, about 124 arrived. Delaware is a net gainer.
That lead is growing — up 26% on five years ago.
Another 271 households arrived from abroad.
Net household change, five years
Every move in or out of Delaware, including from abroad — so the latest bar can differ slightly from the state-to-state figure above.
Where Delaware is gaining from other states
Largest net state-to-state changes by county — same basis as the figures above, top eight only. Each city page adds the in-state picture.
#27 of 3,087 U.S. counties for total household growth
#464 of 3,087 U.S. counties for total household growth
#138 of 3,087 U.S. counties for total household growth
Where Delaware is losing to other states
Largest net state-to-state changes by county — same basis as the figures above, top eight only. Each city page adds the in-state picture.
No county in Delaware lost households to other states this period.
Which states Delaware trades households with
Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows ranked by total volume. The IRS publishes only each county's largest partner states, so smaller streams are left out and these totals run below the headline figures.
Households arriving in Delaware from another state report
$88,435 in average annual income;
those leaving for another state report
$76,502.
Arrivals out-earn departures — Delaware is trading up.
Arriving from another state$88,435
Leaving for another state$76,502
City-level breakdowns
Every city page has its own migration section — who's arriving, from how far, and what kind of mover that calls for.
How this works: IRS SOI County-to-County Migration Data, 2022-2023. The IRS compares the address on consecutive tax
returns, so every move here is a real filed household. The headline figures and county lists count moves that
crossed a state line; the five-year chart counts every move, including from abroad. The data publishes annually
with about a two-year lag, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 48% of moves
unattributed to a specific county, because flows too small to publish are grouped into regional buckets.
3 of Delaware's counties have published data.