Rank 2 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

South Carolina

South Carolina 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 South 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+299,962+54.7 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migration+60,351+11.0 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths−17,465−3.2 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.

South Carolina, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	+67,887	+4,027	55,815	64,948	−9,133
2022	+83,940	+13,865	57,613	64,615	−7,002
2023	+80,092	+19,225	58,152	58,965	−813
2024	+68,043	+23,234	57,999	58,516	−517

Ranked just above and below South Carolina

1Idaho+55.7 / 1,000 3Montana+44.6 / 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