Los Angeles: California Lost a Net $11.9B in Income
IRS data: California lost a net $11.9B of adjusted gross income to other states in 2022-23, the most of any state.
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California lost a net $11.9 billion of adjusted gross income to other states in 2022-23, the largest loss of any state, according to our analysis of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) state-to-state migration files. Los Angeles County is one of the places those households left from.
Why it matters
For Los Angeles developers, lenders and brokers, the statewide figure is the headline and the county figure is the local read. Texas, Nevada and Arizona took the most Los Angeles County movers. The $11.9 billion is a statewide total, so it should not be read as Los Angeles County’s own number.
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The numbers
The IRS counts the adjusted gross income (AGI) on tax returns that changed state between filing years. California’s outflow exceeded its inflow by a net $11.9 billion, ahead of New York (-$9.9 billion) and Illinois (-$6.0 billion). Our companion migration story shows 120,890 people moved from Los Angeles County to other states in 2022-23 while 82,625 moved in, a net loss of 38,265 people. Texas took the most, followed by Nevada, Arizona, Florida and New York. The series covers domestic moves only.
What’s next
The IRS has not published 2023-24 files, so 2022-23 is the latest year. We will update when the next file is released. More local coverage is on the Los Angeles market page.
Method note: net income is the IRS state inflow file minus the state outflow file for 2022-23, adjusted gross income in billions of dollars, domestic moves only. The IRS counts tax filers and their claimed dependents, so it does not cover every mover. The data is public: IRS Statistics of Income migration data.
On the record
Net adjusted gross income moved between states in 2022-23, computed by subtracting IRS state outflow from state inflow ('Total Migration-US' rows), California -$11.9B in billions
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Primary record
- Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income migration dataState-to-state and county-to-county migration data, 2022-23