The Foreign Born in the United States, 2000

Caption

The Foreign Born in the United States: As Percentage of Total County Population, 2000

Summary

This map is color-coded to show the percentage of total foreign born living in the U.S. out of the total population. Additional maps are provided for Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii.

The foreign born population in the United States accounted for 11.1% of the total.

Source

The maps are available online at the Migration Policy Institute’s Data Hub.

The Migration Policy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank dedicated to the study of the movement of people worldwide.

Primary Data Source:

U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000.

Copyright

© 2004 Migration Policy Institute. All rights reserved.

Permission to use this map on the Mapping Globalization website was granted on June 7, 2007.

Series

This map is one of a series Maps of the Foreign Born in the US published by the Migration Policy Institute. The series includes separate maps for each of the following sources of immigrants:

  • China, India, Iran, Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam
  • Africa, Caribbean, South America
  • All sources