{"id":18813,"date":"2014-05-14T12:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T17:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/15-states-with-the-highest-share-of-immigrants-in-their-population\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:44:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:44:09","slug":"15-states-with-the-highest-share-of-immigrants-in-their-population","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2014\/05\/14\/15-states-with-the-highest-share-of-immigrants-in-their-population\/","title":{"rendered":"15 states with the highest share of immigrants in their population"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/hispanic\/2014\/04\/29\/statistical-portrait-of-the-foreign-born-population-in-the-united-states-2012\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f2f0e8\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f2f0e8;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"1126\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/05\/FT_14.05.09_ForeignBornPopulation.png?resize=480,845 480w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/05\/FT_14.05.09_ForeignBornPopulation.png?resize=640,1126 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-28911 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/05\/FT_14.05.09_ForeignBornPopulation.png\" alt=\"Top 15 states with highest percentage of immigrants, California, New Mexico, New York\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/hispanic\/2013\/01\/29\/a-nation-of-immigrants\/\">sharp rise<\/a> in the number of immigrants living in the U.S. in recent decades serves as a backdrop for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/30\/us\/politics\/immigration-bill-hinges-on-new-obama-attitude-boehner-says.html\">debate in Congress<\/a> over the nation\u2019s immigration policies. In 1990, the U.S. had 19.8 million immigrants. That number rose to <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/hispanic\/2014\/04\/29\/statistical-portrait-of-the-foreign-born-population-in-the-united-states-2012\/#population-by-nativity-and-citizenship-status-2000-and-2012\">a record 40.7 million immigrants<\/a> in 2012, among them <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/hispanic\/2013\/09\/23\/population-decline-of-unauthorized-immigrants-stalls-may-have-reversed\/\">11.7 million unauthorized immigrants<\/a>.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over this period, the number of immigrants in the U.S. increased more than five times as much\u00a0as the U.S.-born population (106.1% versus 19.3%), according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/hispanic\/2014\/04\/29\/statistical-portrait-of-the-foreign-born-population-in-the-united-states-2012\/\">Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data<\/a>. As a result, from 1990 to 2012, the share of immigrants in the entire U.S. increased from 7.9% in 1990 to 13.0% in 2012.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today there are four states in which about <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/hispanic\/2014\/04\/29\/statistical-portrait-of-the-foreign-born-population-in-the-united-states-2012\/#foreign-born-by-state-2012\">one-in-five or more people <\/a>are foreign born\u2014California, New York, New Jersey and Florida. By contrast, in 1990, California was the only state to have more than a fifth of its population born outside the U.S.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 15 states where immigrants made up the biggest share of the population in 2012 account for about eight-in-ten (79%) of the nation\u2019s immigrants. Although the rankings have changed over the past few decades, almost all of the states that have\u00a0the highest immigrant population shares have\u00a0remained the same.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of immigrants have\u00a0risen so quickly in some parts of the country that states typically thought of as hubs of immigration, such as Arizona, have\u00a0slipped behind other states by some measures. In 2000, immigrants made up 12.9% of Arizona\u2019s population, ninth-highest in the nation that year. By 2012, Arizona had dropped to 12<sup>th<\/sup>-highest, even though immigrants made up a higher share\u201413.6%\u2014of the state\u2019s population.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sharp rise in the number of immigrants living in the U.S. in recent decades serves as a backdrop for the debate in Congress over the nation\u2019s immigration policies. In 1990, the U.S. had 19.8 million immigrants. 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