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Foreign Born a
Majority in Six U.S. Cities
According to an analysis of census results by the U.S. Census Bureau, foreign born people
constituted the majority in six cities of 100,000 or more population in 2000. Two are in
Florida and four in California.
More than 7 in 10 people in Hialeah, Fla., and about 6 in 10 in Miami were foreign-born,
according to the census brief. The foreign born accounted for more than half the
population in the California cities of Glendale, Santa Ana, Daly City and El Monte.
Places with 40 percent to 50 percent foreign-born in their populations in 2000 were East
Los Angeles, Los Angeles and Garden Grove, Calif., and Elizabeth, N.J.
The report chronicles the increase of the foreign born population over the last decade:
from 19.8 million in 1990 to 31.1 million in 2000. All regions of the country experienced
increases in the foreign born population by nearly 90 percent in the South,
65 percent in the Midwest, 50 percent in the West and nearly 40 percent in the Northeast.
Between 1990 and 2000, the foreign-born population grew by 200 percent or more
in North Carolina, Georgia and Nevada. In 2000, more than half of the nation’s
foreign-born population lived in three states: California, New York and Texas.
While the proportion of the foreign born exceeded the national average (about 1-in-9) in
nearly 200 counties, another 60 had at least 2-in-10 foreign-born residents. Some of these
counties were far from traditional gateway areas, e.g., Clark, Idaho; Seward, Finney and
Ford, Kan.; Franklin and Adams, Wash.; and the Aleutians West Census Area of Alaska.
Other stats:
In 2000, the foreign-born made up the majority of the population in only one U.S.
county: Miami-Dade, Fla., which was home to 1.1 million foreign-born (51 percent of the
county’s population).
The largest foreign-born populations in U.S. cities in 2000 were in New York (2.9
million), Los Angeles (1.5 million), Chicago (629,000) and Houston (516,000).
The foreign-born population grew between 100 percent and 199 percent in 16 states
from 1990 to 2000. Their only growth rate below 10 percent occurred in Maine: 1.1
percent.
The foreign-born who were naturalized U.S. citizens in 2000 (the national average was 40
percent) outnumbered the foreign-born who were not U.S. citizens in only seven states:
Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Pennsylvania, Vermont and West Virginia.
Almost half (46 percent) of the foreign-born population was of Hispanic origin.
The data are based on responses from the sample of households who received the census long
form, about 1-in-6 nationally, and are subject to sampling and nonsampling error.
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