According to a recent report released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday, almost half of the foreign-born population in the country resides in just four states: California, Texas, Florida, and recent York. almost the past 12 years, their numbers have increased and they are more educated and older.
American Community Survey Findings
The number of people who were born outside of the United States has also “grown considerably over the past 50 years in both size and share of the U.S. population,” according to the American Community Survey report, rising from 9.6 million in 1970 (4.7%) to 46.2 million in 2022 (13.9%).
The Census Bureau stated that the survey is “designed to provide communities with reliable and timely social, economic, housing, and demographic data for the nation, states, congressional districts, counties, places, and other localities.”
Here are some of the study’s findings:
- With an anticipated population of almost 39 million, the Census Bureau reports that in 2022, nearly a quarter of all foreign-born Americans resided in California.
- The survey states that more than 20 percent of the populations in California, New Jersey, New York, and Florida were foreign-born people.
However, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that “in the Midwest, only Illinois had more than 10 percent foreign-born,” and “West Virginia had the smallest percentage of foreign-born in 2022, at 1.8 percent of its population.” - According to the American Community Survey, there were more foreign-born people living in almost every state in 2022 than there were in 2010.
From where do the residents who were born abroad come?
According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, half of the country’s foreign-born population is from Latin America; however, by 2022, “the count of those born in Mexico decreased by approximately 1.0 million, while the number of foreign-born from South America and Other Central America increased by 2.1 million.”