Rank 3 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Montana

Montana gained through both migration channels, from other states and from other countries, while recording more deaths than births. Every net resident added here arrived; none were born here on balance.

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

Domestic migrationmoved the most people+50,720+44.6 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migration+2,579+2.3 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths−3,360−3.0 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.

Montana, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	+20,539	+713	10,841	12,141	−1,300
2022	+15,661	+989	11,182	12,886	−1,704
2023	+9,110	+371	11,024	11,392	−368
2024	+5,410	+506	11,268	11,256	+12

Ranked just above and below Montana

2South Carolina+54.7 / 1,000 4Delaware+41.9 / 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