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Sign Up for Our Newsletter. Immigration Research Library. Immigration Data on Demand. Quick Immigration Statistics: Massachusetts. Quick Immigration Statistics: Greater Boston. There are approximately 44 million immigrants in the United States. How many immigrants are there in the United States, and who are they?
About one in every eight U. Source: U. In , towards the end of the Baby Boom, the population was younger than in , when these age groups were much more evenly dispersed. The regions of origin for immigrant populations residing in the U. Now, the amount of time that immigrants have spent in the U.
Starting as early as , more Asian immigrants than Hispanic immigrants have arrived annually in the U. In the early s, the number of newly arrived Hispanic immigrants greatly outnumbered newly arrived Asian immigrants. Around the time of the Great Recession, Latin American immigration declined sharply, especially from Mexico. This new methodology has also allowed the inclusion of the figure from The U. While there have been gains across the board, the increases have been most dramatic among immigrants from Asia, Europe and the Middle East and less so among those from Mexico and Central America.
Source: Pew Research Center estimates based on augmented U. Census Bureau data. See Methodology for details. Since then, the population declined to About one-quarter of the U. Fresh data delivered Saturday mornings. Fifty percent of all immigrants in the United States in had entered the country prior to 29 percent entered before and 21 percent between and , while 25 percent entered between and and the remaining 25 percent in or later. While immigrants from Mexico have dominated the flows post, the composition of new arrivals has changed since Recently arrived immigrants are more likely to come from Asia, with India and China leading the way.
In fact, in , India and China overtook Mexico as the top origin countries for new arrivals, displacing its longstanding position. The number of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Cuba, Venezuela, Guatemala, and El Salvador also increased between and By contrast, the number of Mexican immigrants in the United States declined by more than , during the same period, representing the biggest absolute decline of all immigrant groups.
Among the origin countries with at least , immigrants in the United States in , the top five that experienced the fastest growth between and were Venezuela an increase of percent , Afghanistan percent , Nepal percent , Myanmar also known as Burma; 84 percent , and Nigeria 79 percent.
Immigrants and their U. The Pew Research Center has projected that the immigrant-origin share of the population will rise to about 36 percent by College-educated persons are defined as adults 25 years and older with a bachelor's degree or higher.
Race as used by the Census Bureau reflects the race or races with which individuals most closely self-identify.
Race categories include both racial and national-origin groups. Hispanic and Latino are ethnic, not racial, categories. They include individuals who classified themselves in one of the specific Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino categories listed on the decennial census and American Community Survey questionnaire—"Mexican, Mexican Am. Children of immigrants who are born in the United States contribute to the younger median age of the U.
Fewer than 1 percent of immigrants were under age 5 in , compared to 7 percent of the U. Children and youth ages 5 to 17 years accounted for 5 percent of immigrants and 18 percent of the U. People of working age 18 to 64 years comprised 78 percent of the immigrant population, a much higher figure than the 59 percent of U. Approximately 17 percent of immigrants were 65 years and older, similar to the 16 percent of the U.
In , about 52 percent of all U. The share has fluctuated slightly over the past four decades: 53 percent in , 51 percent in , 50 percent in , and 51 percent in In , 45 percent of immigrants reported their race as single-race White, 27 percent as Asian, 10 percent as Black, and 15 percent as some other race. About 2 percent reported having two or more races. In , 44 percent of U. Note : The Census Bureau classifies Hispanic and Latino as ethnic categories, separate from the racial categories listed above see Definitions box for more information.
The majority of U. Hispanics are U. Of the In , approximately 78 percent million of all The remaining 22 percent Among those who reported speaking a language other than English at home, 62 percent were Spanish speakers. Other top languages were Chinese 5 percent, including Mandarin and Cantonese ; Tagalog almost 3 percent ; and Vietnamese, Arabic, French including Cajun , and Korean about 2 percent each see Table 1.
Table 1. Languages Spoken at Home Other than English ages 5 and older , Source: MPI tabulation of data from the U. Census Bureau ACS. Figure 2. Source: MPI analysis of data from the U. Data for these 15 jurisdictions are from the U. Census Bureau pooled ACS. In , approximately 46 percent Note : The term "Limited English Proficient" refers to persons ages 5 and older who reported speaking English "not at all," "not well," or "well" on their survey questionnaire.
In , 33 percent Figure 3. Educational Attainment of U. Note: Recently arrived immigrants are those who entered the United States between and Source : MPI tabulation of data from the U.
Educational attainment varies by country of origin. Other top countries were Zimbabwe 74 percent , Taiwan 73 percent , United Arab Emirates and Belarus 70 percent each , and Singapore 69 percent.
Which states have the largest number of immigrants and which ones have experienced the fastest growth of their immigrant populations? In , the top five U. When classified by immigrants' share of total population, the top five states in were California 27 percent , New Jersey 23 percent , New York 22 percent , Florida 21 percent , and Nevada 20 percent.
While traditional immigrant destinations have the largest absolute number of new immigrants, other states have seen much larger relative growth in their immigrant populations. Table 2. Census Bureau and ACS and decennial census. The civilian labor force is comprised of civilians ages 16 and older who were either employed or unemployed but looking for work in the week prior to participation in the American Community Survey or decennial census.
Immigrants constituted 17 percent Immigrant participation in the labor force has more than tripled since , when immigrants accounted for approximately 5 percent of the civilian labor force. Figure 4. Employed Workers in the U.
Civilian Labor Force ages 16 and older , by Nativity and Occupation, Note: Numbers may not add up to as they are rounded to the nearest whole number.
Fourteen percent of immigrants were poor that is, with family incomes below the official poverty threshold , compared to 12 percent of the U. In , approximately 58 percent of U. From to , the rate of uninsured immigrants fell from 32 percent to 20 percent, and the rate for the native born fell from 12 percent to 7 percent.
In , the Trump administration made a number of changes to policies initiated by the ACA, including removing the individual coverage mandate, ending cost-sharing subsidies to insurers, and cutting funding for navigator programs. In , the share of uninsured among the immigrant population remained at about 20 percent. Note : Health insurance coverage is calculated only for the civilian, noninstitutionalized population.
Since some people may simultaneously hold both private and public health insurance coverage, estimates of those with public health insurance and those with public coverage may overlap. Their sum therefore may be greater than the total number of people with health insurance.
Second-generation immigrant children are any U. First-generation immigrant children are any foreign-born children with at least one foreign-born parent. Children with immigrant parents are both first- and second-generation immigrant children. Note : The estimates in this section include only children under age 18 who reside with at least one parent. In , approximately They accounted for 26 percent of the Second-generation children, who were born in the United States to at least one foreign-born parent, accounted for 88 percent The remaining 12 percent 2.
Between and , the number of children ages 17 and under with immigrant parents grew 30 percent, from Between and , the number grew by another 5 percent, reaching The population of first-generation children, who were born outside the United States, declined by 12 percent between and , from 2. It then declined further by another 9 percent between and , to 2.
In contrast, the number of second-generation children has grown steadily since Between and , the number increased by 40 percent, from In , there were Of them, nearly 8 million or 31 percent were children of immigrants. Children of immigrants were more likely to be in low-income families 45 percent of the Which states have the largest number of children in immigrant families and which ones have experienced the fastest growth of this population?
In , the top five states by the total number of children under age 18 living with immigrant parents were California 4 million , Texas 2. These states accounted for 56 percent of the The five states with the largest share of children with immigrant parents in were California 47 percent of all children in the state , New Jersey 41 percent , Nevada 38 percent , New York 36 percent , and Texas 35 percent.
While traditional immigrant destinations experienced the largest absolute growth in children with immigrant parents over time, other states have seen much larger relative growth see Table 3. In some states, this is because the initial number of children with immigrant parents was quite small.
Thus, relatively small absolute increases in the immigrant population in these states have translated into high percent growth. Table 3. How many immigrants obtain lawful permanent residence also known as getting a green card? In fiscal year FY , 1 million immigrants became lawful permanent residents LPRs, also known as green-card holders.
In the past decade, the annual number of new green-card recipients has ranged from , FY to 1. In recent years, immigrants obtaining LPR status have been, on average, about evenly divided between those already living in the United States who are adjusting their status and those applying from outside the country. Many of these new permanent residents are spouses, minor children, and parents of U.
About , of the new LPRs nearly 45 percent were granted this status from abroad in FY , a slight dip from previous years when the share of new arrivals was higher 48 percent in FY and 51 percent the prior year.
Most new arrivals are immediate family members of U.
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