Rankings · Place

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

Free to use. The chart names its source and links back, so it stays honest wherever it ends up.

<iframe src="https://movermath.com/embed/born-abroad" width="100%" height="420" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Share of residents born outside the United States by state"></iframe>

Source: U.S. Census Bureau. · How this is built