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The States That High-Earning Households Ditched For Better Pastures, Visualized

The States That High-Earning Households Ditched For Better Pastures, Visualized
Here's a state-wise breakdown of where people earning more than $200,000 have migrated to in the last few years.
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SmartAsset crunched inflow and outflow from tax filers (between 2019 and 2020) who made more than $200,000, to see if they recently decided to move across state lines to set up a new home. Here's what IRS data showed them.



Key Takeaways

  • Between 2019 and 2020, Florida (20,263), Texas (5,356) and Arizona (5,268) all gained over 5,000 new residents overall.

  • The biggest exit of high earners was in New York (-19,192), California (-19,229) and Illinois (-8,044).







Via SmartAsset.

[Photo by Mike Scheid on Unsplash]

Comments

  1. K J 1 year ago

    You always see numbers showing how many people have moved but most sites never ask why? They should. Also, whoever made the graphic really needs a new color ramp. This one is awful. There is a lot nuance lost in the binary scheme.


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