Maricopa County leads the state.
Small business owners in Arizona are seeing the state’s population grow, but a website is putting dollar figures on the phenomenon, saying the state gained $31.4 billion in adjusted gross income from 1992-2013.
People moving to Maricopa County were responsible for much of that increase, about $18.6 billion of it, according to How Money Walks, a website arguing that Americans are relocating to states with pro-growth tax policies. Its data comes from the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Maricopa’s tax receipt growth was followed by Pima County ($4.04 billion), Pinal ($3.38 billion), Yavapai ($2.76 billion) and Mohave ($1.54 billion).
The website also looks at where the growth is coming from, finding that Maricopa’s population increase from 1985-2013 was led by people moving from Los Angeles County, Cook County (home of Chicago), Pima County, Orange County and San Bernardino County. In contrast, Mohave County’s growth was led entirely by people leaving California.
Meanwhile, though they’re dwarfed by the people arriving, those who are leaving Arizona went to these top five destinations: Idaho, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina.
