Rank 23 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Kentucky

Kentucky gained through both migration channels — 27,734 from other states, 70,495 from other countries — while recording 18,756 more deaths than births. Every net resident added here arrived; none were born here on balance.

Domestic migration+27,734+6.0 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.
International migration+70,495+15.4 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.
Births minus deaths−18,756−4.1 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.

Kentucky, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
YearDomesticInternationalBirthsDeathsNaturalScale
2021+2,704+1,75551,36358,350−6,987
2022+10,439+11,14952,30061,278−8,978
2023+7,297+26,16152,50654,405−1,899
2024+7,294+31,43052,24853,140−892

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 ↗

Kentucky: where people went — Applied America