105,221 People Moved to South Florida From Other States
IRS data: 105,221 people moved to South Florida from other states in 2022-23. What it means for housing demand.
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) counts 105,221 people moved to South Florida from other states in 2022-23, the latest year published. New York ranked first among origins, followed by New Jersey, California, Texas and Massachusetts.
Why it matters
The IRS series is built from tax returns that changed address between years, so it shows which origin states matter most for South Florida’s housing demand. Developers, lenders and brokers sizing demand can read the origin states as the pools households are coming from. 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, 105,221 people moved to South Florida from other states. In the same year, 111,159 people moved from South Florida to other states, which works out to a net loss of 5,938 people to other states. The top five origin states were New York (20,960), New Jersey (9,083), California (7,184), Texas (5,820), and Massachusetts (4,418).
The Census Bureau estimates run through July 2025 and cover Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties combined. They show a net loss of 113,724 to other states in the year to July 2025, compared with a net gain of 7,447 from other states in the year to July 2011, and 93,450 arrivals from other countries in the year to July 2025, compared with 57,427 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 Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties combined. More local coverage is on the South Florida market page. Both datasets are public: the IRS Statistics of Income migration data and the Census Bureau population estimates.
On the record
105,221 people moved to South Florida from other states in 2022-23, against 111,159 people moved from South Florida to other states 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