Where Are Americans Moving - Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Forbes.com recently posted an interactive tool on their website that allows you to explore where people moved during 2007-2008. Information was compiled from the Internal Revenue Service. The screen shot capture (below) shows migration patters from Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of the US was estimated in 2009 at 307,006,550 people of which 5,699,478 or 1.8% of the total population lived in Maryland. In the nine year period from April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2009, the Bureau estimates that Anne Arundel County grew by 6.4% to a population of 521,209 or about 9.1% of the total population of the State of Maryland. The 2006 population estimate for Annapolis was 36,408.
While the Forbes.com interactive data map is great, there's more to the story that meets the eye. The IRS publishes detailed migration data that's available to anyone who wants to download it.
According to the IRS in 2008 in Maryland there were 81,116 address changes. That's about 1.42% of the total population. It's important to remember that the data reflects changes in household taxpayers which might mean a whole family moved or just one member of a family. Of the 81,116 there were 16,613 taxpayers migrating into Anne Arundel County and there were 16,798 taxpayers who moved out of Anne Arundel County. That's about 10% of all the Maryland taxpayers who moved in 2007-2008. There were 13.8% taxpayers that moved into Anne Arundel County from in-state. And, Anne Arundel County lost 15.7% of it's taxpayers to out-of-state moves. Overall a 1.9% loss of taxpayers in the 2007-2008 tax years. The chart below summarizes the IRS data.
| 2007-2008 IRS Mirgration Data | Outflow | Inflow | Net |
| Maryland | 167,632 | 159,465 | -4.9% |
| Maryland In-State | 81,116 | 81,116 | 0.0% |
| Maryland Out-of-State | 83,718 | 73,412 | -12.3% |
| Anne Arundel County | 16,798 | 16,613 | -1.1% |
| Anne Arundel County In-State | 7,664 | 8,721 | 13.8% |
| Anne Arundel County Out-of-State | 8,733 | 7,364 | -15.7% |
Detailed data reveals that the majority of taxpayers moved from Prince George's County into Anne Arundel County and moved from the county to Baltimore County. The most out-of-state taxpayers came from Fairfax County, Virginia and moved to the District of Columbia. There were also many taxpayers that moved from or to a non-US address (APO/FPO address) changes filed with the IRS. Of special interest might be that there were 127 taxpayers that came into the county from Honolulu County (that's Hawaii) while 103 taxpayers went to Honolulu County (it's likely that these were military service related moves).
Overall Anne Arundel County has experienced a minor loss of taxpayers when compared to other States, counties and cities that are experiencing a massive exodus of taxpayers. Some of those taxpayers are coming to Anne Arundel County, but, most are not.
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