Rank 44 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

New Jersey

New Jersey lost 183,099 residents to other states over this window and gained 326,287 from other countries. Net migration is positive only because the second number is larger than the first: without international arrivals, New Jersey would be losing people to migration.

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

Domestic migration−183,099−19.3 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migrationmoved the most people+326,287+34.3 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths+85,258+9.0 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.

New Jersey, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	−32,628	+14,743	98,005	84,007	+13,998
2022	−66,769	+72,909	102,676	82,754	+19,922
2023	−48,148	+107,943	102,459	77,131	+25,328
2024	−35,554	+130,692	101,199	75,189	+26,010

Ranked just above and below New Jersey

43Massachusetts−18.7 / 1,000 45Washington, D.C.−20.2 / 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