Rank 45 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. lost 14,213 residents to other states over this window and gained 34,586 from other countries. Net migration is positive only because the second number is larger than the first: without international arrivals, Washington, D.C. would be losing people to migration.

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

Domestic migration−14,213−20.2 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migrationmoved the most people+34,586+49.3 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths+11,354+16.2 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.

Washington, D.C., components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	−6,432	+1,747	8,508	5,840	+2,668
2022	−4,864	+10,017	8,502	5,603	+2,899
2023	−2,580	+10,320	8,061	5,035	+3,026
2024	−337	+12,502	7,746	4,985	+2,761

Ranked just above and below Washington, D.C.

44New Jersey−19.3 / 1,000 46Alaska−24.2 / 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