Rank 23 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000
Kentucky
Kentucky gained through both migration channels — 27,734 from other states, 70,495 from other countries — while recording 18,756 more deaths than births. Every net resident added here arrived; none were born here on balance.
Domestic migration+27,734+6.0 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.
International migration+70,495+15.4 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.
Births minus deaths−18,756−4.1 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 | +2,704 | +1,755 | 51,363 | 58,350 | −6,987 | |
| 2022 | +10,439 | +11,149 | 52,300 | 61,278 | −8,978 | |
| 2023 | +7,297 | +26,161 | 52,506 | 54,405 | −1,899 | |
| 2024 | +7,294 | +31,430 | 52,248 | 53,140 | −892 |
Either side of Kentucky
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 ↗