Where Are Lackawanna County's New Residents Coming From? Where Are They Headed? (Philadelphia: college, tax)

[ScranBarre]

After recently posting my new photo tour of Ithaca, NY, I lingered around on the NY forum a little bit and sauntered into a thread by BellaFinzi regarding demographic trends in Onondaga County, NY (Syracuse), her home. She provided me with a link to a resource that uses IRS tax records to track where residents in each county in the United States are moving from and to.
I decided to take a similar approach to our area. Since most of our forum members seem to reside in Lackawanna County as this point in time, I'll use this county as an example.
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Counties that Provided New Residents to Lackawanna County (Out-of-State Counties Highlighted in Bold). 2000-2005

Counties Number of New Residents Provided
Luzerne, PA 3,120
Wayne, PA 2,401
Susquehanna, PA 1,393
Wyoming, PA 1,285
Monroe, PA 1,127
Pike, PA 451
Philadelphia, PA 345
Kings, NY 344
Montgomery, PA 299
Queens, NY 275
Broome, NY 243
Lehigh, PA 238
Bronx, NY 224
Bucks, PA 207
New York, NY 190
Dauphin, PA 181
Northampton, PA 177
Suffolk, NY 176
Bergen, NJ 153
Middlesex, NJ 151
Morris, NJ 148
Essex, NJ 145
Orange, NY 140
Bradford, PA 140
Hudson, NJ 138
Passaic, NJ 136
Berks, PA 131
Lancaster, PA 130
Maricopa, AZ 128
Centre, PA 121
Broward, FL 120
Delaware, PA 117
Chester, PA 116
Allegheny, PA 115
Lycoming, PA 111
Union, NJ 110
Carbon, PA 109
Columbia, PA 94
Ocean, NJ 91
Richmond, NY 88
Nassau, NY 85
Cumberland, PA 81
Palm Beach, FL 80
Fairfax, VA 60
Burlington, NJ 58
Schuylkill, PA 56
Camden, NJ 49
Clark, NV 45
York, PA 45
Westchester, NY 44
Sussex, NJ 43
Northumberland, PA 42
Onondaga, NY 40
Monroe, NY 38
Montgomery, MD 36
San Diego, CA 34
Providence, RI 34
Steuben, NY 33
New Haven, CT 29
Baltimore, MD 25
Los Angeles, CA 25
Fairfield, CT 23
Monmouth, NJ 22
Chemung, NY 21
New Castle, DE 19
Hillsborough, FL 18
Miami-Dade, FL 17
Sullivan, NY 17
Onslow, NC 15
Erie, PA 12
Orange, FL 12
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Now, one might look at this table above and say to themselves "Wow! Lackawanna County is growing tremendously!" However, I'd be remiss to not also include a table that shows the counties that Lackawanna Countians moved to during the same period as well, which nearly erased all of those hefty gains to a net gain of only 80 residents.

Counties Number of Residents Lost
Luzerne, PA 3,742
Wayne, PA 1,873
Susquehanna, PA 1,401
Wyoming, PA 1,317
Monroe, PA 517
Philadelphia, PA 514
Montgomery, PA 414
Lehigh, PA 327
Pike, PA 295
Dauphin, PA 239
Bucks, PA 238
Northampton, PA 213
Allegheny, PA 206
New York, NY 184
Lancaster, PA 179
Delaware, PA 164
Centre, PA 164
Chester, PA 162
Palm Beach, FL 160
Lee, FL 156
Maricopa, AZ 153
Broome, NY 150
York, PA 145
Pinellas, FL 130
Berks, PA 127
Fairfax, VA 126
Cumberland, PA 125
Broward, FL 123
Hillsborough, FL 122
New Castle, DE 116
Clark, NV 111
San Diego, CA 110
Columbia, PA 109
Kings, NY 108
Orange, FL 106
Middlesex, NJ 97
Morris, NJ 95
Baltimore, MD 95
Hudson, NJ 85
Queens, NY 82
Bradford, PA 77
Montgomery, MD 75
Cook, IL 67
Ocean, NJ 65
Anne Arundel, MD 54
Schuylkill, PA 54
Bergen, NJ 50
Volusia, FL 46
Orange, NY 46
District of Columbia, DC 44
Los Angeles, CA 44
Marion, FL 43
Virginia Beach, VA 39
New Haven, CT 39
Hartford, CT 38
Essex, NJ 38
Carbon, PA 38
Fairfield, CT 36
Polk, FL 34
Burlington, NJ 30
Sarasota, FL 29
Suffolk, MA 28
Pasco, FL 27
Steuben, NY 27
Camden, NJ 25
Wake, NC 24
Collier, FL 23
Providence, RI 22
Middlesex, MA 21
Horry, SC 20
Lycoming, PA 19
Suffolk, NY 19
Monmouth, NJ 19
Brevard, FL 19
Onondaga, NY 17
Hernando, FL 14
Monroe, NY 13
Baltimore City, MD 12
Arlington, VA 10

While we gained many residents from out-of-state, it is also a sad trend to see so many residents are moving from Lackawanna County to areas outside of PA as opposed to other parts of the state.
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If anyone would like me to do a similar analysis for a different local county, please let me know!

[bellafinzi]

ScrantonWilkesBarre, since my posts gave you two ideas....1. taking photos of Scranton area communities 2. demographic trends in the Scranton area....would you please give me the courtesy of two requests?

My first request is this: please do not bring up the topic of sprawl in threads about the Syracuse area. My second request is do not post about Scranton in threads devoted to the topic of Syracuse.

Do we have a deal?

[bellafinzi]

Oh, almost forgot. In return, I'll promise to never talk about the Syracuse area in one your Scranton threads.....

[ScranBarre]

It's a deal.

[bellafinzi]

Wow, thanks! Hope I didn't offend you. Never meant to if I did.

If you feel I invaded your Scranton thread, I can delete all this. Probably should. Yes?

[ScranBarre]

Originally Posted by bellafinzi

Wow, thanks! Hope I didn't offend you. Never meant to if I did.

If you feel I invaded your Scranton thread, I can delete all this. Probably should. Yes?

Nope. Don't delete it. LOL! No offense taken at all. In fact, it's come to my attention as of late that my civic pride for my hometown is actually turning people off to the city because I'm coming off as being overzealous. I'm just tiring of every other person who lives in NEPA whining about it being a "dump" while not getting off their derrieres to attempt to rectify it. On the other hand, I'm content with raising my family in this city in the future because I DO believe it has a brighter future ahead of it, despite all the negativity. When you were nominated as the runner-up for "Armpit of America," there's nowhere to go but UP!

For what it's worth, I poke my nose into the Upstate NY forum so much because I'm intensely-interested in it. I hope to eventually do a fourth photo tour of Upstate NY of Elmira, and I may then do a fifth of Cooperstown. Upstate NY and PA are quite similar in character, which is why I think I like it so much.

[TheTruth08]

It seems like the places that people from NY that are moving to NE PA the people from NE PA are moving to those places also, and some other favorites.

Both have migration back in forth to Brooklyn, Queens, Suffolk, NJ, Florida, intresting..

(if your reading this can you go online, im t2day005)

[Willemite]

Is the IRS link available? I would love to see a comparable analysis of Wilkes Barre, but would be interested in seeing some related data, and am more than happy to roll my own.

[kettlepot]

Posts about other areas can be very valuable if there is an appropriate hook involving the topic of the thread. For example if there is a thread that is discussing the impact of a new college campus in Springfield, MA, and someone from Springfield, OR opines about the impact the opening of a college campus had on that city 20 years ago, I believe that could be very useful for the people reading the original thread even though its geographically off topic.

I guess when inserting ourselves into threads for other areas, it's important to ensure that our posts has something pertinent to say either in comparison or contrast.

Oh, and where's that IRS link? Could prove very interesting.

[ScranBarre]

Here's that link: Moving from county to county

Simply plug in whatever county you wish.