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As far as metro areas, this is the 10-year total of initial place of residence of immigrants in order:
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA: 1,573,780
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA: 1,020,837
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL: 678,271
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI: 412,359
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV: 369,532
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA: 338,346
After that the numbers for the rest of the CSA's dropped off a lot down into the ~200K range for a lot of cities.
The flaw in this link is that it only counts the number of people who have obtained permanent residency-it doesnt count those who have not yet received that status. So there are many who are not included in these numbers.
Foreign Born Residents as a percentage of the total population, 2007, 20%+ San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 37.2%
Miami-Ft Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL 37.0%
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA 34.9%
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 29.6%
Laredo, TX 29.2%
El Centro, CA 28.9%
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX 28.5%
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA 28.3%
El Paso, TX 26.7%
Brownsville-Harligen, TX 26.0%
Merced, CA 26.9%
Yuma, AZ 24.9%
Naples-Marco Island, FL 24.6%
Stockton, CA 24.3%
Napa, CA 23.7%
Visalia-Porterville, CA 23.5%
Oxnard-Ventura, CA 23.2%
Las Vegas, NV 22.3%
Riverside-San Bernardino, CA 22.3%
Santa Barbara, CA 22.3%
Madera, CA 22.1%
Fresno, CA 21.8%
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX 21.4%
Bakersfield, CA 20.6%
Washington-Alexandria-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV 20.5%
Las Cruces, NM 20.0%
Largest Combined Statistical Areas Foreign Born Population
Los Angeles 31.5%
San Francisco 29.6%
New York 26.3%
Houston 21.3%
Chicago 17.3%
Dallas 17.2%
Washington 15.9%
Seattle 13.9%
Boston 13.8%
Atlanta 12.6%
Minneapolis 8.5%
Philadelphia 8.5%
Detroit 8.1%
I don't know about the whole U.S. but Texas is really getting immigrants. San Antonio, Houston, Austin, El Paso, West Texas, the Coast, the Hill country, the Valley, it's all getting lots of immigrants
Foreign Born Individuals who Earn $75,000+ Annually, 2007 Combined Statistical Area
New York 574,013
Los Angeles 389,997
San Francisco 314,458
Washington 175,479
Chicago 131,156
Miami MSA 122,634
Boston 100,571
Houston 78,661
Dallas 62,362
Seattle 61,694
Philadelphia 59,634
San Diego MSA 58,085
Detroit 57,993
Atlanta 49,309
Phoenix MSA 36,150
Foreign Born Residents with a Bachelor Degree, 2007 Combined Statistical Area
New York 913,028
Los Angeles 729,461
San Francisco 412,440
Miami MSA 288,248
Washington 243,187
Chicago 226,083
Boston 145,166
Houston 131,700
Dallas 115,362
Atlanta 108,760
Seattle 92,459
San Diego MSA 90,231
Philadelphia 86,661
Detroit 72,801
Phoenix MSA 59,921
Born in Europe, 2007
New York 1,108,429
Chicago 395,814
Los Angeles 292,483
Boston 265,901
San Francisco 198,299
Washington 148,547
Miami 133,730
Philadelphia 125,376
Detroit 118,727
Seattle 99,580
Phoenix 70,342
Atlanta 67,131
San Diego 54,038
Houston 53,562
Dallas 50,391
Born in Asia, 2007
Los Angeles 1,709,241
New York 1,518,011
San Francisco 1,105,357
Washington 461,395
Chicago 394,767
Boston 272,040
Seattle 269,175
Houston 244,274
Dallas 228,209
San Diego 223,625
Detroit 210,490
Philadelphia 198,021
Atlanta 176,671
Phoenix 104,014
Miami 103,147
Born in Africa, 2007
New York 214,341
Washington 185,255
Boston 85,662
Los Angeles 72,620
Atlanta 64,870
Dallas 50,105
Houston 47,746
Chicago 46,189
Philadelphia 44,171
San Francisco 39,294
Seattle 32,610
Miami 18,787
Phoenix 16,259
San Diego 13,882
Born in Oceania, 2007
San Francisco 28,774
Los Angeles 24,643
New York 13,624
Seattle 11,303
Washington 4,837
San Diego 4,175
Dallas 4,138
Boston 4,079
Houston 3,718
Chicago 2,536
Atlanta 1,999
Miami 1,884
Phoenix 1,872
Philadelphia 1,568
Detroit 842
Born in Latin America, 2007
Los Angeles 3,425,029
New York 2,859,026
Miami 1,712,594
Houston 855,106
Chicago 830,190
Dallas 767,665
San Francisco 746,541
Phoenix 519,666
Washington 495,265
Atlanta 383,355
San Diego 362,665
Boston 362,042
Philadelphia 165,357
Seattle 116,743
Detroit 63,286
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