Where households are arriving from and leaving for, county by county — built on official federal tax-filer data, not marketing estimates.
+1,390 net households from other states
Arrived from other states
14,870
households, 2022-2023
Left for other states
13,480
households, 2022-2023
Moved within South Dakota
14,697
households changed county, stayed in state
+1,390 net households — Arrivals from other states and departures to them are close in volume — arrivals edge ahead by 1,390 households.
That lead is growing — up 357% on five years ago.
Another 150 households arrived from abroad.
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Net household change, five years
Every move in or out of South Dakota, including from abroad — so the latest bar can differ slightly from the state-to-state figure above.
+312
18–19
+1,007
19–20
+3,015
20–21
+3,657
21–22
+1,427
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.
Sioux Falls · Minnehaha County — the busiest moving market in South Dakota.
Where South Dakota 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 South Dakota from another state report
$74,741 in average annual income;
those leaving for another state report
$64,530.
Arrivals out-earn departures — South Dakota is trading up.
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 58% of moves
unattributed to a specific county, because flows too small to publish are grouped into regional buckets.
62 of South Dakota's counties have published data.