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Who's moving to New Jersey

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

-19,370 net households from other states
Arrived from other states
107,653
households, 2022-2023
Left for other states
127,023
households, 2022-2023
Moved within New Jersey
124,948
households changed county, stayed in state

-19,370 net households — For every 100 households that arrived from another state, about 118 left. New Jersey is a net loser to other states. The pace has held steady over five years. Another 1,780 households arrived from abroad.

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Net household change, five years
Every move in or out of New Jersey, including from abroad — so the latest bar can differ slightly from the state-to-state figure above.
-16,951
18–19
-12,716
19–20
-12,992
20–21
-21,363
21–22
-21,027
22–23
Where New Jersey 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.
Jersey City Hudson County +3,977
#2,991 of 3,087 U.S. counties for total household growth
Where New Jersey 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.
Parsippany Morris County -2,696
New Brunswick Middlesex County -2,580
Middletown Monmouth County -2,184
Bridgewater Somerset County -1,884
Hackensack Bergen County -1,883
Trenton Mercer County -1,623
Paterson Passaic County -1,534
Newark Essex County -1,483
Which states New Jersey 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 York +17,381
41,424 in
24,043 out
Pennsylvania -2,501
13,348 in
15,849 out
Florida -11,209
5,244 in
16,453 out
California -1,486
3,376 in
4,862 out
Texas -2,603
1,398 in
4,001 out
Massachusetts -740
1,798 in
2,538 out

Households arriving in New Jersey from another state report $102,190 in average annual income; those leaving for another state report $106,727. The two groups earn about the same.

Arriving from another state$102,190
Leaving for another state$106,727
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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.
Jersey City Hackensack New Brunswick Newark Elizabeth Middletown Parsippany Mount Laurel Camden Toms River Paterson Bridgewater

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 16% of moves unattributed to a specific county, because flows too small to publish are grouped into regional buckets. 21 of New Jersey's counties have published data.