Counties in North Carolina by net domestic migration, July to June
Wake County had the highest net domestic migration, July to June of 100 counties in 2017, at 11,973. Cumberland County had the lowest, at -5,781. The median was 149 and the figure for North Carolina was 64,769. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.
Map of counties, 2017
- Under -300
- -300 to -100
- -100 to 0
- 0 to 300
- 300 to 900
- 900 and over
Top 40 counties, 2017
Full ranking
| Rank | Counties | 2017 | Change on 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wake County Estimated | 11,973 | -16% |
| 2 | Mecklenburg County Estimated | 6,295 | -30.8% |
| 3 | Brunswick County Estimated | 4,994 | +12.6% |
| 4 | Johnston County Estimated | 4,579 | -2.7% |
| 5 | Cabarrus County Estimated | 4,064 | -0.3% |
| 6 | Union County Estimated | 4,037 | +25.7% |
| 7 | New Hanover County Estimated | 3,419 | -29.8% |
| 8 | Forsyth County Estimated | 2,910 | +31.2% |
| 9 | Gaston County Estimated | 2,767 | -17.6% |
| 10 | Alamance County Estimated | 2,694 | -10.8% |
| 11 | Iredell County Estimated | 2,584 | +8.3% |
| 12 | Buncombe County Estimated | 2,164 | -24% |
| 13 | Henderson County Estimated | 2,082 | +0.7% |
| 14 | Moore County Estimated | 1,863 | +50.5% |
| 15 | Pender County Estimated | 1,861 | +45.6% |
| 16 | Chatham County Estimated | 1,685 | +23.1% |
| 17 | Franklin County Estimated | 1,286 | +67.2% |
| 18 | Lincoln County Estimated | 1,285 | +107.6% |
| 19 | Catawba County Estimated | 1,117 | +81.9% |
| 20 | Watauga County Estimated | 970 | -1.9% |
| 21 | Rowan County Estimated | 922 | +16% |
| 22 | Davidson County Estimated | 894 | +17.3% |
| 23 | Haywood County Estimated | 844 | -8.7% |
| 24 | Guilford County Estimated | 735 | -80.8% |
| 25 | Harnett County Estimated | 708 | -55.3% |
| 26 | Burke County Estimated | 675 | +242.6% |
| 27 | Granville County Estimated | 668 | +43.7% |
| 28 | Stanly County Estimated | 628 | +157.4% |
| 29 | Currituck County Estimated | 620 | +24.2% |
| 30 | Transylvania County Estimated | 576 | +52.8% |
| 31 | Jackson County Estimated | 552 | -55.2% |
| 32 | Pitt County Estimated | 533 | +294.8% |
| 33 | Lee County Estimated | 489 | +12,325% |
| 34 | Davie County Estimated | 483 | +29.1% |
| 35 | Macon County Estimated | 471 | +85.4% |
| 36 | Hoke County Estimated | 465 | +191% |
| 37 | Rutherford County Estimated | 428 | +345.8% |
| 38 | Dare County Estimated | 365 | +12.7% |
| 39 | Carteret County Estimated | 331 | +28.8% |
| 40 | McDowell County Estimated | 325 | +449.5% |
| 41 | Ashe County Estimated | 316 | +159% |
| 42 | Clay County Estimated | 306 | +67.2% |
| 43 | Cherokee County Estimated | 288 | -65.5% |
| 44 | Surry County Estimated | 285 | +143.6% |
| 45 | Polk County Estimated | 279 | +114.6% |
| 46 | Cleveland County Estimated | 271 | +19.4% |
| 47 | Caldwell County Estimated | 266 | -18.7% |
| 48 | Madison County Estimated | 252 | +3.3% |
| 49 | Durham County Estimated | 221 | -92.3% |
| 50 | Tyrrell County Estimated | 149 | +230.7% |
| 50 | Yancey County Estimated | 149 | +27.4% |
| 52 | Camden County Estimated | 124 | +24% |
| 53 | Person County Estimated | 122 | +2.5% |
| 53 | Swain County Estimated | 122 | +184.1% |
| 55 | Alleghany County Estimated | 120 | +12.1% |
| 56 | Avery County Estimated | 112 | +460% |
| 57 | Perquimans County Estimated | 76 | +660% |
| 58 | Warren County Estimated | 75 | +130.7% |
| 59 | Mitchell County Estimated | 51 | +920% |
| 60 | Alexander County Estimated | 30 | -86.5% |
| 61 | Yadkin County Estimated | 28 | -68.9% |
| 62 | Montgomery County Estimated | 11 | +108.2% |
| 63 | Jones County Estimated | 10 | +106.1% |
| 64 | Graham County Estimated | 9 | +126.5% |
| 65 | Wilkes County Estimated | 4 | -98.8% |
| 66 | Stokes County Estimated | -14 | +89.7% |
| 67 | Nash County Estimated | -15 | -109.3% |
| 68 | Wilson County Estimated | -18 | +89.3% |
| 69 | Gates County Estimated | -42 | -200% |
| 70 | Pamlico County Estimated | -48 | -144.9% |
| 71 | Caswell County Estimated | -57 | -1,525% |
| 72 | Washington County Estimated | -89 | +31.5% |
| 73 | Greene County Estimated | -95 | -189.6% |
| 74 | Chowan County Estimated | -96 | -972.7% |
| 75 | Randolph County Estimated | -102 | -126.6% |
| 76 | Bertie County Estimated | -114 | +83.8% |
| 77 | Pasquotank County Estimated | -116 | -4.5% |
| 78 | Beaufort County Estimated | -136 | -219.3% |
| 79 | Bladen County Estimated | -146 | +61% |
| 80 | Columbus County Estimated | -169 | +43.5% |
| 81 | Northampton County Estimated | -170 | +45.7% |
| 82 | Hyde County Estimated | -171 | -538.5% |
| 83 | Onslow County Estimated | -188 | +95.8% |
| 83 | Orange County Estimated | -188 | -142% |
| 85 | Rockingham County Estimated | -201 | -34.9% |
| 86 | Richmond County Estimated | -215 | +42.5% |
| 87 | Scotland County Estimated | -235 | -279% |
| 88 | Martin County Estimated | -242 | -135% |
| 89 | Vance County Estimated | -259 | -1,077.3% |
| 90 | Sampson County Estimated | -266 | +58.5% |
| 91 | Hertford County Estimated | -286 | -63.4% |
| 92 | Anson County Estimated | -307 | +15.7% |
| 93 | Halifax County Estimated | -433 | -37.5% |
| 94 | Craven County Estimated | -434 | +37.9% |
| 95 | Edgecombe County Estimated | -477 | -13.8% |
| 96 | Lenoir County Estimated | -514 | +23.1% |
| 97 | Duplin County Estimated | -653 | -734% |
| 98 | Robeson County Estimated | -1,196 | +21.7% |
| 99 | Wayne County Estimated | -1,775 | -120.2% |
| 100 | Cumberland County Estimated | -5,781 | -185.2% |
Other periods
About this ranking
Estimated moves into an area from elsewhere in the same country minus moves out to the rest of the country, from July 1 of the previous year through June 30 of the reported year.
More on how it is measured
- United States: states and counties.
- Canada: provinces and territories, net interprovincial migration (Statistics Canada).
- United Kingdom: local authorities, counting moves between any two UK local authorities, including across the borders of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (ONS internal migration).
- A negative value means more people left than arrived.
Sums to zero, or close to it, for each country as a whole, so there is no national value.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the counties are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.
How to cite
U.S. Census Bureau. Population Estimates Program: net domestic migration, states and counties, July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the reported year; vintage 2020 files for 2011 to 2020 and the latest 2020s vintage from 2021. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html. Retrieved 2026-10-12.Citation styles
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U.S. Census Bureau. (2026). Population Estimates Program: net domestic migration, states and counties, July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the reported year; vintage 2020 files for 2011 to 2020 and the latest 2020s vintage from 2021 (Counties in North Carolina by net domestic migration, July to June, 2017) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html
MLA 9
Population Estimates Program: net domestic migration, states and counties, July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the reported year; vintage 2020 files for 2011 to 2020 and the latest 2020s vintage from 2021, Counties in North Carolina by net domestic migration, July to June, 2017. U.S. Census Bureau, 26 Mar. 2026, https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/net-domestic-migration-july-june/north-carolina-counties?period=2017. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.
Chicago (author-date)
U.S. Census Bureau. 2026. Population Estimates Program: net domestic migration, states and counties, July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the reported year; vintage 2020 files for 2011 to 2020 and the latest 2020s vintage from 2021. Counties in North Carolina by net domestic migration, July to June, 2017. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/net-domestic-migration-july-june/north-carolina-counties?period=2017.
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U.S. Census Bureau (2026) Population Estimates Program: net domestic migration, states and counties, July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the reported year; vintage 2020 files for 2011 to 2020 and the latest 2020s vintage from 2021, Counties in North Carolina by net domestic migration, July to June, 2017 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/net-domestic-migration-july-june/north-carolina-counties?period=2017 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).
BibTeX
@misc{census_counties_in_north_carolina_2017,
author = {{U.S. Census Bureau}},
title = {{Population Estimates Program: net domestic migration, states and counties, July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the reported year; vintage 2020 files for 2011 to 2020 and the latest 2020s vintage from 2021: Counties in North Carolina by net domestic migration, July to June, 2017}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Data set},
url = {https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html},
urldate = {2026-10-12},
note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/net-domestic-migration-july-june/north-carolina-counties?period=2017. Publisher attribution: U.S. Census Bureau. Population Estimates Program: net domestic migration, states and counties, July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the reported year; vintage 2020 files for 2011 to 2020 and the latest 2020s vintage from 2021. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}
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Which county has the highest net domestic migration, July to June?
Wake County, with 11,973 in 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Which county has the lowest net domestic migration, July to June?
Cumberland County, with -5,781 in 2017.
Where does this ranking come from?
Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program: net domestic migration, states and counties, July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the reported year; vintage 2020 files for 2011 to 2020 and the latest 2020s vintage from 2021. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
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