Rank 31 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania lost 45,451 residents to other states over this window and gained 198,274 from other countries. Net migration is positive only because the second number is larger than the first: without international arrivals, Pennsylvania would be losing people to migration.

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

Domestic migration−45,451−3.5 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migrationmoved the most people+198,274+15.2 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths−70,144−5.4 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.

Pennsylvania, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	+28,184	+10,198	130,247	155,702	−25,455
2022	−40,405	+37,940	131,688	155,242	−23,554
2023	−21,730	+68,035	129,235	141,059	−11,824
2024	−11,500	+82,101	127,571	136,882	−9,311

Ranked just above and below Pennsylvania

30Ohio−3.0 / 1,000 32Virginia−3.9 / 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