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Who's moving to Vermont

Where households are arriving from and leaving for, county by county — built on official federal tax-filer data, not marketing estimates.

-374 net households from other states
Arrived from other states
11,202
households, 2022-2023
Left for other states
11,576
households, 2022-2023
Moved within Vermont
6,367
households changed county, stayed in state

-374 net households — Arrivals from other states and departures to them are close in volume — departures edge ahead by 374 households. That loss has narrowed by 47% over five years. Another 32 households arrived from abroad.

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Net household change, five years
Every move in or out of Vermont, including from abroad — so the latest bar can differ slightly from the state-to-state figure above.
-818
18–19
+1,429
19–20
+1,541
20–21
+364
21–22
-433
22–23
Where Vermont 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.
Rutland Rutland County +44
#605 of 3,087 U.S. counties for total household growth
Lunenburg Essex County +4
#1,419 of 3,087 U.S. counties for total household growth
Newport Orleans County +3
#1,191 of 3,087 U.S. counties for total household growth
Morristown Lamoille County +2
#2,662 of 3,087 U.S. counties for total household growth
Where Vermont 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.
Saint Albans Franklin County -96
Barre Washington County -68
North Hero Grand Isle County -58
Hartford Windsor County -56
Burlington Chittenden County -38
Middlebury (village) Addison County -34
St Johnsbury Caledonia County -25
Bennington Bennington County -24
Which states Vermont 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.
New Hampshire -13
796 in
809 out
Massachusetts +134
751 in
617 out
New York -57
509 in
566 out
Connecticut +71
162 in
91 out
California -10
67 in
77 out
Maine -46
44 in
90 out

Households arriving in Vermont from another state report $82,101 in average annual income; those leaving for another state report $71,936. Arrivals out-earn departures — Vermont is trading up.

Arriving from another state$82,101
Leaving for another state$71,936
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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.
Burlington Hartford Barre Rutland Brattleboro Randolph Bennington St Johnsbury

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 53% of moves unattributed to a specific county, because flows too small to publish are grouped into regional buckets. 14 of Vermont's counties have published data.