Rank 41 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Minnesota

Minnesota lost 46,516 residents to other states over this window and gained 80,796 from other countries. Net migration is positive only because the second number is larger than the first: without international arrivals, Minnesota would be losing people to migration.

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

Domestic migration−46,516−8.0 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migrationmoved the most people+80,796+13.9 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths+47,848+8.3 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.

Minnesota, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	−10,549	+5,523	63,012	51,412	+11,600
2022	−29,472	+21,405	64,651	53,371	+11,280
2023	−5,334	+24,328	63,128	49,940	+13,188
2024	−1,161	+29,540	61,438	49,658	+11,780

Ranked just above and below Minnesota

40North Dakota−7.5 / 1,000 42Maryland−18.4 / 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