Where households are arriving from and leaving for, county by county — built on official federal tax-filer data, not marketing estimates.
+442 net households from other states
Arrived from other states
56,130
households, 2022-2023
Left for other states
55,688
households, 2022-2023
Moved within Wisconsin
91,124
households changed county, stayed in state
+442 net households — Arrivals from other states and departures to them are close in volume — arrivals edge ahead by 442 households.
Another 394 households arrived from abroad.
Moving in from another state? Your mover needs active interstate operating authority — most local companies don't hold one.
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Net household change, five years
Every move in or out of Wisconsin, including from abroad — so the latest bar can differ slightly from the state-to-state figure above.
-2,727
18–19
-386
19–20
-893
20–21
-955
21–22
+55
22–23
Every county at a glance.
Gained households from other states
Lost households to other states
Circle size — households that moved in or out.
Milwaukee · Milwaukee County — the busiest moving market in Wisconsin.
Where Wisconsin 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.
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.
Households arriving in Wisconsin from another state report
$72,451 in average annual income;
those leaving for another state report
$74,464.
The two groups earn about the same.
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 34% of moves
unattributed to a specific county, because flows too small to publish are grouped into regional buckets.
72 of Wisconsin's counties have published data.