2023 Migration Trends: Maryland Sees Northern Influx, Southern Outflow

October 17, 2024

The U.S. Census today released their state to state migration flows data.

We’re going to take a look at the in-flow and out-flow of people (over 1 year old) in Maryland. To see the MOE (Margin of Error) for each statistic, view the full data chart.

Maryland Overall

Maryland gained 162,674 people and lost 198,764 to/from other states.

This means that 36,090 more people left Maryland than new people came here.

Top States for People Coming to Maryland

First we’ll look at gross overall people coming, then the net increase meaning the number coming vs. number that left to go to that state.

Overall people coming to Maryland:

• Virginia: 21,670
• Washington DC: 20,296
• Pennsylvania:16,851
• New York: 14,439
• California: 10,051

Net people coming to Maryland Top 3 states:

• Washington DC: 7,649
• New York: 6,320
• New Jersey: 3,293

Top States for People Leaving Maryland

Overall people Leaving Maryland:

• Virginia: 28,203
• Pennsylvania: 20,654
• Florida: 17,439
• Texas: 16,116
• North Carolina: 12,649
• Washington DC: 12,647

Net people leaving Maryland Top 5 States:

• Texas: -10,524
• Florida: -9,234
• Virginia: -6,533
• North Carolina: -6,148
• South Carolina: -5,484

Overall Trends

At a high level, the trends seem to be that there are a lot of movements back and forth with nearby states in both directions.

Bigger states can obviously have bigger numbers because they have more people overall so some of the smaller states which may be impacted more by less people are not listed here.

Net people coming to Maryland seem to trend from more Northern and liberal areas whereas the people leaving seem to trend to go to more Southern and conservative areas.

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