Rank 42 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Maryland

Maryland lost 114,948 residents to other states over this window and gained 153,678 from other countries. Net migration is positive only because the second number is larger than the first: without international arrivals, Maryland would be losing people to migration.

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

Domestic migration−114,948−18.4 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migrationmoved the most people+153,678+24.5 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths+45,232+7.2 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.

Maryland, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	−17,763	+9,038	67,431	59,001	+8,430
2022	−45,928	+47,782	69,084	57,638	+11,446
2023	−32,748	+43,758	67,587	53,835	+13,752
2024	−18,509	+53,100	65,609	54,005	+11,604

Ranked just above and below Maryland

41Minnesota−8.0 / 1,000 43Massachusetts−18.7 / 1,000

More on Maryland

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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