The economic benefit that communities derive from in-migration of retired persons has been well recognized in rural development literature. This paper examines the impact of Georgia county attributes on net migration by persons 55 years old and older from 1975 to 1980. Data were obtained from the 1982 County-City Data Book, the U.S. Census Migration Estimates for States and Counties, the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, and the Georgia Atlas. An empirical model was used to test the independent variables: population, population density, racial homogeneity (percent white), distance to a metropolitan area, crime rate, per capita income, local property tax rate, elevation, and acres of surface water. The linear model was estimated by ordinary least squares. In-migration was positively related to population density, percent white, and acres of surface water, and negatively related to population and distance from a metropolitan area. This paper contains 26 references. (SV)