Rank 39 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Rhode Island

Rhode Island lost 8,258 residents to other states over this window and gained 26,793 from other countries. Net migration is positive only because the second number is larger than the first: without international arrivals, Rhode Island would be losing people to migration.

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

Domestic migration−8,258−7.4 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migrationmoved the most people+26,793+24.1 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths−2,761−2.5 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.

Rhode Island, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	+356	+1,070	10,031	11,327	−1,296
2022	−5,028	+8,346	10,445	11,103	−658
2023	−3,281	+7,852	10,063	10,508	−445
2024	−305	+9,525	9,924	10,286	−362

Ranked just above and below Rhode Island

38Kansas−7.4 / 1,000 40North Dakota−7.5 / 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