Rank 29 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000
Iowa
Iowa lost 8,251 residents to other states over this window and gained 49,594 from other countries. Net migration is positive only because the second number is larger than the first: without international arrivals, Iowa would be losing people to migration.
Domestic migration−8,251−2.5 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.
International migration+49,594+15.3 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.
Births minus deaths+9,019+2.8 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.
| Year | Domestic | International | Births | Deaths | Natural | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | +1,944 | +3,701 | 35,887 | 35,432 | +455 | |
| 2022 | −6,290 | +10,340 | 36,825 | 35,586 | +1,239 | |
| 2023 | −3,674 | +16,114 | 36,475 | 32,979 | +3,496 | |
| 2024 | −231 | +19,439 | 36,301 | 32,472 | +3,829 |
Either side of Iowa
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 ↗