Fewer Americans moved in 2022 according to the latest census data, but of those who did, one in five moved to a different state.
The website Stacker.com compiled a list of states sending the most people to Mississippi using data from the Census Bureau. The top 25 states were ranked by the number of people who moved to Mississippi from a different state in 2022.
Neighboring Tennessee and Louisiana topped the list. A total of 11,406 people moved to Mississippi from Tennessee in 2022, while 10,360 people moved from Louisiana. Texas was third with 8,312 people moving to the Magnolia State, followed by Florida and Alabama.
Georgia, Colorado, Washington, Arizona and North Carolina rounded out the top 10.
Population growth has returned to pre-pandemic norms. Southern states continued to record influxes in population, while the Northeast saw the biggest drops, particularly in New York and Pennsylvania.
States with the most inbound moves in 2023 were Vermont, Washington D.C., South Carolina, and Arkansas, which moved up 14 spots from the year before.
