Rank 4 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Delaware

Delaware 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 Delaware 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+44,125+41.9 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migration+17,684+16.8 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths−1,944−1.8 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.

Delaware, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	+13,461	+939	10,174	11,233	−1,059
2022	+12,578	+3,477	10,849	11,511	−662
2023	+9,931	+5,985	10,718	10,920	−202
2024	+8,155	+7,283	10,437	10,458	−21

Ranked just above and below Delaware

3Montana+44.6 / 1,000 5North Carolina+34.8 / 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