US Metros where the most foreign born residents live (appointed, estimates)

[18Montclair]

doing some research and found this oldie but goodie

Foreign Born Residents as Perentage of Total Population, 2005
20.0% or higher(1 Million+ Metros in Bold)

1 Miami-Ft Lauderdale-Miami Beach, FL 36.5%
2 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 35.6%
3 El Centro, CA 34.7%
4 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA 34.7%
5 Salinas, CA 30.4%
6 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 29.5%
7 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX 29.0%
8 Laredo, TX 28.6%
9 New York-Northern NJ-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA 27.9%
10 El Paso, TX 27.1%
11 Merced, CA 26.0%
12 Brownsville-Harligen, TX 24.8%
13Yuma, AZ 24.2%
14 Stockton, CA 23.5%
15 San Diego, CA 23.4%
16 Fresno, CA 22.6%
17 Visalia-Porterville, CA 22.3%
18 Naples-Marco Island, FL 21.8%
19 Santa Barbara-Santa Maria, CA 21.8%
20 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA 21.6%
21 Houston-Sugarland-Baytown, TX 21.4%
22 Hanford-Corcoran, CA 20.7%
23 Oxnard-Ventura, CA 20.7%
24 Bakersfield, CA 20.3%
25 Modesto, CA 20.3%
26 Gainesville, GA 20.1%

All Metros can be accessed through the link below...

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet...S-35&-_lang=en

[tenken627]

Interesting, but disappointed that it doesn't show where the foreign born residents from each metro emigrated from.

[18Montclair]

^such is the cross that we must bear.

LOL

[The Dissenter]

How does metro DC NOT make this list?

[jessemh431]

Originally Posted by tenken627

Interesting, but disappointed that it doesn't show where the foreign born residents from each metro emigrated from.

Well, I can name some of them for you.

Miami-Cuba, PR, other Caribbean
San Jose, LA, SD, SF, El Centro, El Paso, Yuma, Santa Barbara, Oxnard, Riverside, Bakersfield-Mexico, Nicaragua, and El Salvador mostly, but mainly from Mexico and Central America, just those countries more than others.

Not sure about the others.

[tenken627]

Originally Posted by Alanboy395

How does metro DC NOT make this list?

It shows that DC metropolitan is at 19.9%, just under 20%. It just barely didn't make the cut of 20.0% or higher list that was provided by the OP.

The thing about DC metro is that there is a smaller percentage of foreign born residents in the area, but that portion is very mixed with different nationalities.

Honestly, while DC has a large hispanic population (usually the largest foreign born population in any American city), it's not as overwhelming as many of the cities listed above.

[tenken627]

Originally Posted by jessemh431

Well, I can name some of them for you.

Miami-Cuba, PR, other Caribbean
San Jose, LA, SD, SF, El Centro, El Paso, Yuma, Santa Barbara, Oxnard, Riverside, Bakersfield-Mexico, Nicaragua, and El Salvador mostly, but mainly from Mexico and Central America, just those countries more than others.

Not sure about the others.

I wanted to know more about actual figures and percentages, but thank you.

[jessemh431]

Originally Posted by tenken627

Interesting, but disappointed that it doesn't show where the foreign born residents from each metro emigrated from.

Miami:
In terms of national origin and/or ethnic origin, the city is 34.1% Cuban, 22.3% African American, 5.6% Nicaraguan, 5.0% Haitian, 3.6% Puerto Rican and 3.3% Honduran. In 2004, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) ranked Miami first in terms of percentage of residents born outside of the country it is located in (59%), followed by Toronto (50%).

Only one I could find cus I didn't feel like looking through all of them. I'm surprised Calexico isn't on there, unless they consider it part of El Centro.

I never knew this, but Wiki says that San Jose has the highest population of Vietnamese people in America.

[tenken627]

Originally Posted by jessemh431

Miami:
In terms of national origin and/or ethnic origin, the city is 34.1% Cuban, 22.3% African American, 5.6% Nicaraguan, 5.0% Haitian, 3.6% Puerto Rican and 3.3% Honduran. In 2004, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) ranked Miami first in terms of percentage of residents born outside of the country it is located in (59%), followed by Toronto (50%).

Only one I could find cus I didn't feel like looking through all of them. I'm surprised Calexico isn't on there, unless they consider it part of El Centro.

I never knew this, but Wiki says that San Jose has the highest population of Vietnamese people in America.

I think thats from the old 2000 census. I was interested in the original post because it is fairly recent data from 2005. I know that the US Census Bureau brought out overall population and demographic estimates in subsequent years after 2000, but I don't know if they delved into it too deeply.

[Futcha]

Originally Posted by tenken627

Interesting, but disappointed that it doesn't show where the foreign born residents from each metro emigrated from.

Other than NYC, these places foreign born residents are predominantly Mexican/Hispanic. This list isn't made to point out where they're from though. That would be a completely different story.