Moving In, Moving Out:
A 2023 Special Report -Analyzing the Movement of People Into and Out Of the Hudson Valley During 2019-2020
Why should we care about migration?
Migration into and out of the Hudson Valley affects many aspects of life across the region, including schools, businesses, taxes, and the number of Congressional seats assigned to New York.
The new migration data were released by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in late April 2023. The data utilize information from tax returns to track domestic and international migration in the United States. The IRS migration data are considered among the most accurate information to track the movement of people throughout the country.
The data in this report are from tax returns filed with the IRS during calendar years 2020 and 2021. Returns received in 2020 represent migration that happened in 2019; and returns received in 2021 represent migration in 2020.
Therefore, the data in this report show migration for the first full year of the Covid-19 pandemic. A migration analysis published by Pattern in 2022 reflected migration for the first several months of the pandemic. The two reports together paint a complete picture of the peak movement of people into and out of the Hudson Valley during the health crisis – a trend that pushed housing prices to record highs.
