Rank 7 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Maine

Maine 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 Maine 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+47,322+33.7 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migration+13,740+9.8 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths−20,747−14.8 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.

Maine, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	+18,016	+1,012	11,590	16,131	−4,541
2022	+14,379	+3,255	12,059	17,966	−5,907
2023	+9,598	+4,277	11,919	17,061	−5,142
2024	+5,329	+5,196	11,609	16,766	−5,157

Ranked just above and below Maine

6Florida+34.7 / 1,000 8Tennessee+32.8 / 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