

The 66 households that moved from San Francisco to Kern County had an average income of $54,000, while 43 households with an average income of $64,000 went to Merced County. These former households were much more likely to remain in California, moving to counties with lower costs of living. The destinations among the lowest-earning migrants from San Francisco were much different. On average, the households reported earning about $396,000 a year in 2020. Many more households, about 2,300 totaling more than 3,900 migrants, moved from San Francisco to Marin County. The 266 households had an average income of $658,000, many times higher than the $144,000 average for tax filing households that remained in the county between 20. Within the Bay Area, those who moved to Napa County had by far the wealthiest average income among those leaving San Francisco.

Another 439 households with average incomes of $368,000 changed to a Miami-Dade County, Florida, address. Nearly 770 households with average annual incomes of $574,000 moved to Travis County, Texas, which includes the city of Austin.

Jeff Chiu/Associated Pressīesides moving to ski towns, which continue to draw some of San Francisco’s wealthiest residents, many who departed San Francisco also went to other population centers and tech hubs. Rich San Francisco households left for different counties than poorer ones. Summit County, which includes the skiing-oriented Park City, is regularly ranked as one of the nation’s richest - and saw a flurry of home buying during the pandemic, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. The county with the wealthiest arrivals from San Francisco was Summit County, Utah, with the 51 households having reported average incomes of more than $1.05 million. The Chronicle’s analysis excluded counties that had fewer than 50 former San Francisco residents arrive between 20. The map below shows the 20 counties where households from San Francisco had the highest and lowest average incomes. The IRS tracks migration by seeing which tax filers’ addresses changed between years - in this case, which households filed their 2020 tax returns in San Francisco but filed their 2021 taxes in another county - and how much income they reported.
