Rank 5 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

North Carolina

All three channels point the same way in North Carolina: arrivals from other states, arrivals from other countries, and births over deaths. Growth here does not depend on any single door.

Measured as counts rather than rates, the channel that moved the most people in North Carolina 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+383,851+34.8 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migration+180,579+16.3 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths+29,582+2.7 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.

North Carolina, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	+103,202	+9,924	116,747	115,533	+1,214
2022	+99,380	+43,024	121,588	118,218	+3,370
2023	+98,981	+57,839	121,223	108,857	+12,366
2024	+82,288	+69,792	121,281	108,649	+12,632

Ranked just above and below North Carolina

4Delaware+41.9 / 1,000 6Florida+34.7 / 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