Rankings · Place

Highest born abroad by state

Share of residents born outside the United States.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

Residents born outside the United States, including naturalised citizens. A plain count of where people were born, not of citizenship or of recent arrival — someone who arrived as a child fifty years ago is counted here.

  1. 1California27.0%
  2. 2New Jersey23.9%
  3. 3New York22.8%
  4. 4Florida21.9%
  5. 5Nevada19.1%
  6. 6Massachusetts18.0%
  7. 7Hawaii17.9%
  8. 8Texas17.6%
  9. 9Maryland16.6%
  10. 10Connecticut15.7%
  11. 11Washington15.4%
  12. 12Rhode Island15.3%
  13. 13Illinois14.7%
  14. 14District of Columbia14.3%
  15. 15Virginia13.1%
  16. 16Arizona13.0%
  17. 17Georgia11.2%
  18. 18Delaware10.7%
  19. 19Colorado9.8%
  20. 20Oregon9.8%
  21. 21New Mexico9.4%
  22. 22North Carolina9.1%
  23. 23Utah8.9%
  24. 24Minnesota8.7%
  25. 25Nebraska8.1%
  26. 26Alaska7.7%
  27. 27Pennsylvania7.7%
  28. 28Kansas7.4%
  29. 29Michigan7.2%
  30. 30Indiana6.3%
  31. 31Oklahoma6.3%
  32. 32New Hampshire6.1%
  33. 33Tennessee6.1%
  34. 34Iowa5.9%
  35. 35Idaho5.9%
  36. 36South Carolina5.8%
  37. 37Arkansas5.4%
  38. 38Ohio5.2%
  39. 39Wisconsin5.2%
  40. 40Louisiana4.9%
  41. 41Kentucky4.7%
  42. 42North Dakota4.7%
  43. 43Missouri4.5%
  44. 44Vermont4.3%
  45. 45Maine4.1%
  46. 46Alabama4.0%
  47. 47South Dakota4.0%
  48. 48Wyoming3.5%
  49. 49Mississippi2.4%
  50. 50Montana2.3%
  51. 51West Virginia1.8%
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. · How this is built