Route guide · Washington to Texas
Moving from Washington to Austin
19,119 people made this move in the 2022-2023 tax year alone. Here's what the IRS data and the people who moved actually say about it.
19,119 people made this move in the 2022-2023 tax year alone. Here's what the IRS data and the people who moved actually say about it.
9,863 tax returns (19,119 people including dependents) logged a move from Washington to Texas in the 2022-2023 IRS SOI migration data. Those returns represent $1,178M in adjusted gross income following the move.
This page is the route-specific version of the full Austin guide. If you are moving from Washington, three things are going to be different from what the relocation blogs tell you: the tax delta is smaller than the headline (insurance, property tax, and sales tax eat the spread), the climate adjustment is larger (especially if you are moving from a cooler state), and the social calibration is harder because you are the network tip, not the node.
The Washington to Austin route is a chapter inside the full 4,800-word guide. The calculator, neighborhoods, failure modes, first-year timeline, and four resident interviews live there.