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Who's Moving To Forsyth County?

I came across a fantastic resource that will help any business owners that are interested in finding out who’s moving to Forsyth County.  The IRS produces a migration map that shows the migration of people from one county to another based on their tax returns.  Since the data comes from individual tax returns, the average income is also included.  To protect privacy, only counties with at least 10 people moving to or from are included.

It comes as no surprise that we consistently have more people moving to Forsyth County than moving away.  Since 2005, we have averaged approximately 7,500 people leaving the county and approximately 13,100 people moving to Forsyth County.  The latest available data is from 2010.

There are some areas that we “swap” about the same number of residents – such as Phoenix, Raleigh, Miami, Charlotte, and Hilton Head.  There are several areas that have residents moving to Forsyth County with limited or no return movement – such as San Diego, Fort Worth, Chicago, New Brunswick (NJ), Greensboro, Birmingham, Suffolk County (NY), and a couple of counties in Michigan. 

There are only a couple of areas where the number of people moving out of Forsyth County greatly exceeds the number moving here.  The number one example is Bowling Green, KY with nearly 100 families moving there from our county and possibly none moving to Forsyth County from Bowling Green.

There is no doubt that our quality of life is a big draw for people (and companies) to continue to move to Forsyth County.   Of course, our local housing market is very attractive to people moving from more expensive metropolitan areas.  Forsyth County is just a wonderful place to live, work, and play!

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Tim Hopkins

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