Where households are arriving from and leaving for, county by county — built on official federal tax-filer data, not marketing estimates.
-10,142 net households from other states
Arrived from other states
36,223
households, 2022-2023
Left for other states
46,365
households, 2022-2023
Moved within Louisiana
66,446
households changed county, stayed in state
-10,142 net households — For every 100 households that arrived from another state, about 128 left. Louisiana is a net loser to other states.
The pace has held steady over five years.
Another 404 households arrived from abroad.
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Net household change, five years
Every move in or out of Louisiana, including from abroad — so the latest bar can differ slightly from the state-to-state figure above.
-9,277
18–19
-9,834
19–20
-14,051
20–21
-14,387
21–22
-10,248
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.
New Orleans · Orleans Parish — the busiest moving market in Louisiana.
Where Louisiana 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.
Colfax Grant Parish +16
#1,720 of 3,087 U.S. counties for total household growth
Rayville Richland Parish +16
#2,007 of 3,087 U.S. counties for total household growth
Banks Springs Caldwell Parish +1
#1,992 of 3,087 U.S. counties for total household growth
Saint Joseph Tensas Parish +1
#1,331 of 3,087 U.S. counties for total household growth
Where Louisiana 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.
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 Louisiana from another state report
$58,413 in average annual income;
those leaving for another state report
$62,920.
Departures out-earn arrivals — Louisiana is losing its higher earners.
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.
64 of Louisiana's counties have published data.