Rank 34 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Washington

Washington lost 33,762 residents to other states over this window and gained 206,184 from other countries. Net migration is positive only because the second number is larger than the first: without international arrivals, Washington would be losing people to migration.

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

Domestic migration−33,762−4.2 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migrationmoved the most people+206,184+25.9 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths+61,537+7.7 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.

Washington, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	−15,688	+13,991	82,602	64,953	+17,649
2022	−3,452	+43,544	83,978	70,873	+13,105
2023	−17,293	+67,068	82,165	67,819	+14,346
2024	+2,671	+81,581	82,072	65,635	+16,437

Ranked just above and below Washington

33New Mexico−4.1 / 1,000 35Michigan−6.2 / 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