Eight teenagers were arrested but the police said the majority of the 50 or so families living in the settlement left peacefully. Evictions began after the Supreme court ruled the settlement was not legal.
The court had delayed several deadlines set for evacuating Migron in the past year after last-minute appeals, and Israeli authorities were concerned that settlers could respond violently but the evacuation went off in relative peace.
Last week the court rejected an appeal by the settlers to delay the evacuation, which a separate ruling a year ago decided was built on privately owned Palestinian land.
Migron is one of dozens of hilltop outposts built more than a decade ago without Israeli government authorisation on land captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War but which Palestinians claim for a hoped-for independent state.
The United Nations deems all Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be illegal. Israel disputes this and distinguishes between about 120 settlements it has sanctioned and about 100 outposts erected by settlers without authorisation.
Evictions at Migron are due to be completed by September 11 when the buildings built by settlers will be razed to the ground.
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