224,844 People Left New York City for Other States
IRS data: 224,844 people moved from New York City to other states in 2022-23. What it means for housing demand.
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) counts 224,844 people moved from New York City to other states in 2022-23, the latest year published. New Jersey ranked first among destinations, followed by Florida, Pennsylvania, California and Connecticut.
Why it matters
The IRS series is built from tax returns that changed address between years, so it shows which destination states matter most for New York City’s housing demand. Developers, lenders and brokers sizing demand can read the destination states as where local households are going instead. Each figure below counts people claimed on tax returns, so it does not cover every mover.
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The numbers
In 2022-23, 224,844 people moved from New York City to other states. In the same year, 147,093 people moved from other states to New York City, which works out to a net loss of 77,751 people to other states. The top five destination states were New Jersey (58,227), Florida (30,144), Pennsylvania (20,155), California (14,936), and Connecticut (14,813).
The Census Bureau estimates run through July 2025 and cover the five boroughs combined. They show a net loss of 113,718 to other states in the year to July 2025, compared with a net loss of 48,668 to other states in the year to July 2011, and 65,824 arrivals from other countries in the year to July 2025, compared with 63,067 in 2011.
The map-and-bars video behind this story shows the same IRS figures for each year from 2011-12 to 2022-23, using a two-year average for the bars.
What’s next
The IRS has not published 2023-24 migration files; the agency’s file for that year returned a not-found error when we checked on Nov. 12, 2026, so 2022-23 is the latest year. We will update the figures when the IRS releases the next file. The Census Bureau’s next population estimates are the next check on the trend.
Method note: the IRS counts tax filers and their claimed dependents only, and it suppresses small flows, so the state totals listed above are lower bounds. The region here is the five boroughs combined. More local coverage is on the New York market page. Both datasets are public: the IRS Statistics of Income migration data and the Census Bureau population estimates.
On the record
224,844 people moved from New York City to other states in 2022-23, against 147,093 people moved from other states to New York City in the same year, from IRS county-level migration files we summed ourselves
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Primary record
- US Census Bureau, population estimates 2020-2025Annual estimates of net domestic and international migration, July 2025
- US Census Bureau, population estimates 2010-2020Annual estimates of net domestic and international migration, 2011 to 2020