Rank 22 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000
West Virginia
West Virginia gained through both migration channels — 11,089 from other states, 7,561 from other countries — while recording 40,259 more deaths than births. Every net resident added here arrived; none were born here on balance.
Domestic migration+11,089+6.3 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.
International migration+7,561+4.3 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.
Births minus deaths−40,259−22.7 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.
| Year | Domestic | International | Births | Deaths | Natural | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | +2,984 | +727 | 17,056 | 27,577 | −10,521 | |
| 2022 | +289 | +1,673 | 17,028 | 29,906 | −12,878 | |
| 2023 | +3,296 | +2,320 | 16,895 | 25,911 | −9,016 | |
| 2024 | +4,520 | +2,841 | 16,680 | 24,524 | −7,844 |
Either side of West Virginia
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 ↗