Who's Moving In
The federal record of moves (tax returns filed from a new county) answers the question every porch conversation circles: is this place being discovered, or emptied? In 2022–2023, the four counties together came out behind by 1,716 people on paper. The county stories differ sharply, and the money moving with them differs more.
Berkshire County
2,241 households moved in and 2,429 moved out, net −36 people. The average arriving household reported $100,672 of income; the average departing one, $84,600, arrivals out-earn departures here.
Where arrivals come from (2018–2022 survey average)
- Massachusetts≈1,573/yr
- New York≈1,298/yr
- California≈532/yr
- Florida≈327/yr
- Vermont≈274/yr
- Europe≈208/yr
Franklin County
1,775 households moved in and 1,857 moved out, net −74 people. The average arriving household reported $65,232 of income; the average departing one, $58,708, arrivals out-earn departures here.
Where arrivals come from (2018–2022 survey average)
- Massachusetts≈2,205/yr
- New York≈235/yr
- Asia≈113/yr
- Iowa≈93/yr
- New Hampshire≈72/yr
- Maine≈61/yr
Hampden County
6,895 households moved in and 7,933 moved out, net −1,112 people. The average arriving household reported $58,575 of income; the average departing one, $68,771, departures out-earn arrivals here.
Where arrivals come from (2018–2022 survey average)
- Massachusetts≈6,599/yr
- New York≈1,047/yr
- Puerto Rico≈1,035/yr
- Europe≈675/yr
- Asia≈541/yr
- Caribbean≈398/yr
Hampshire County
4,338 households moved in and 4,813 moved out, net −494 people. The average arriving household reported $67,573 of income; the average departing one, $67,509, arrivals out-earn departures here.
Where arrivals come from (2018–2022 survey average)
- Massachusetts≈11,617/yr
- New York≈929/yr
- Asia≈845/yr
- California≈712/yr
- New Jersey≈307/yr
- New Hampshire≈238/yr
Reading This Honestly
- County level only. Neither federal source breaks moves down to towns, any town-level version of this story is someone's guess, including ours, so we don't tell one.
- Households here means tax returns. People who need not file, some students, some seniors, the lowest incomes, are invisible, and "people" counts the dependents on those returns.
- Income is the movers' adjusted gross income as reported the year after moving, what they brought, not what they found here.
- The arrival origins are a 2018–2022 survey average and cover arrivals only, where this region's leavers go is not in the public county file.
- The two sources run on different clocks and are never combined in one number here.
From the Desk
RE413 News on this subject: who is arriving, and what they earn. Every piece is built from the same public record as the figures above, and states the period each covers.
Sources
- Federal tax-return migration counts (county to county). Figures through 2023.
- The federal migration survey's origin flows. Figures through 2018–2022 survey window.
"Figures through" is the period the publisher's data describes; "checked" is only when we last asked. The full sourcing: sources and method.