Rank 15 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Alabama

Alabama gained through both migration channels, from other states and from other countries, while recording more deaths than births. Every net resident added here arrived; none were born here on balance.

Measured as counts rather than rates, the channel that moved the most people in Alabama over 2021–2024 was domestic migration. That is a statement about volume, not direction: a channel can be the largest by losing.

Domestic migrationmoved the most people+109,375+21.2 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migration+38,717+7.5 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths−24,356−4.7 per 1,000 residentsNatural change. Not migration at all, and frequently mistaken for it.

Year by year

Counts of people. Bars share one scale across all 4 years and all three channels, so a short bar is a small number rather than a rescaled one.

Alabama, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	+25,175	+1,804	57,184	69,134	−11,950
2022	+28,226	+8,155	58,103	67,246	−9,143
2023	+29,946	+12,995	58,528	60,059	−1,531
2024	+26,028	+15,763	57,541	59,273	−1,732

Ranked just above and below Alabama

14Arkansas+21.4 / 1,000 16New Hampshire+19.8 / 1,000

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Vintage-year 2020 is published for a partial period and carries no companion rate, so it is excluded rather than shown alongside four full years it cannot be compared with. A work of the U.S. government: no copyright subsists (17 U.S.C. §105). Source file