US in Focus: State Rankings

States and regions ranked by percent change of the foreign born: 1990 and 2000
(Table generated by the Migration Information Source)

Rank	Area	Number of Foreign Born		Percent Change
Rank	Area	2000	1990	Percent Change
1	North Carolina	430,000	115,077	273.7
2	Georgia	577,273	173,126	233.4
3	Nevada	316,593	104,828	202.0
4	Arkansas	73,690	24,867	196.3
5	Utah	158,664	58,600	170.8
6	Tennessee	159,004	59,114	169.0
7	Nebraska	74,638	28,198	164.7
8	Colorado	369,903	142,434	159.7
9	Arizona	656,183	278,205	135.9
10	Kentucky	80,271	34,119	135.3
11	South Carolina	115,978	49,964	132.1
12	Minnesota	260,463	113,039	130.4
13	Idaho	64,080	28,905	121.7
14	Kansas	134,735	62,840	114.4
15	Iowa	91,085	43,316	110.3
16	Oregon	289,702	139,307	108.0
17	Alabama	87,772	43,533	101.6
18	Delaware	44,898	22,275	101.6
19	Oklahoma	131,747	65,489	101.2
20	Indiana	186,534	94,263	97.9
21	Mississippi	39,908	20,383	95.8
22	Washington	614,457	322,144	90.7
23	Texas	2,899,642	1,524,436	90.2
24	New Mexico	149,606	80,514	85.8
25	Virginia	570,279	311,809	82.9
26	Missouri	151,196	83,633	80.8
27	South Dakota	13,495	7,731	74.6
28	Maryland	518,315	313,494	65.3
29	Florida	2,670,828	1,662,601	60.6
30	Illinois	1,529,058	952,272	60.6
31	Wisconsin	193,751	121,547	59.4
32	New Jersey	1,476,327	966,610	52.7
33	Alaska	37,170	24,814	49.8
34	Michigan	523,589	355,393	47.3
35	Wyoming	11,205	7,647	46.5
36	Pennsylvania	508,291	369,316	37.6
37	California	8,864,255	6,458,825	37.2
38	New York	3,868,133	2,851,861	35.6
39	Massachusetts	772,983	573,733	34.7
40	Louisiana	115,885	87,407	32.6
41	Vermont	23,245	17,544	32.5
42	Connecticut	369,967	279,383	32.4
43	New Hampshire	54,154	41,193	31.5
44	Ohio	339,279	259,673	30.7
45	Hawaii	212,229	162,704	30.4
46	North Dakota	12,114	9,388	29.0
47	Rhode Island	119,277	95,088	25.4
48	District of Colombia	73,561	58,887	24.9
49	West Virgina	19,390	15,712	23.4
50	Montana	16,396	13,779	19.0
51	Maine	36,691	36,296	1.1

1	South	8,608,441	4,582,293	87.9
2	Midwest	3,327,391	2,131,293	56.1
3	West	11,942,989	7,822,706	52.7
4	Northeast	7,229,068	5,231,024	38.2

NA	United States	31,107,889	19,767,316	57.4

NA Not applicable.

The percent change is calculated by subtracting the number of foreign born in 1990 from the number of foreign born in 2000, dividing by the number of foreign born in 1990, and multiplying by 100.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1990 Census of Population and Housing and Census 2000.
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