cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as: Probative Growth, County income and migration from IRS tax returns, 2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23963195. Source: Probative, County income and migration from IRS tax returns, version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23963195, licensed CC BY 4.0."
type: dataset
title: "County income and migration from IRS tax returns"
authors:
  - name: "Probative Growth"
    website: "https://probativegrowth.com"
version: "2.0.0"
date-released: 2026-11-04
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23963195
url: "https://probativegrowth.com/data/county-income/"
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "Individual income tax returns, individuals, adjusted gross income, salaries and wages in every U.S. county for the latest tax year, with the change in income per return from the year before, and the returns and income that moved into and out of each county and state between two filing years, from the IRS Statistics of Income county and migration files. County returns are rounded to the nearest 10 and migration flows are published from 20 returns up; every figure is kept as published, never estimated."
keywords:
  - "IRS county income data"
  - "adjusted gross income by county"
  - "IRS SOI county migration"
  - "county tax returns statistics"
  - "income per return by county"
  - "net migration by county IRS"