Rank 12 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Oklahoma

Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma 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+89,307+21.8 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migration+40,635+9.9 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths−197−0.0 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.

Oklahoma, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	+26,585	+2,181	47,473	50,810	−3,337
2022	+26,026	+12,261	48,249	51,638	−3,389
2023	+22,660	+11,835	48,693	45,300	+3,393
2024	+14,036	+14,358	47,642	44,506	+3,136

Ranked just above and below Oklahoma

11Texas+22.2 / 1,000 13Nevada+21.7 / 1,000

More on Oklahoma

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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