 CENSUS BUREAU PROVIDES NEW STATISTICS ON IMMIGRANT POPULATION
This week the Census Bureau released official information gathered from a supplemental survey of 700,000 US households conducted at the same time as the census. According to information on the immigrant population in the US, which tops 30 million, immigrants as a percent of the US population is at its highest level since the 1930 census, 11.1%. Census statistics show that unlike in past decades, immigrants in the 1990s did not settle primarily in only a few states, but were spread out throughout the country. Despite this, at least one state in which immigrants traditionally settled, California, saw major changes because of immigration. Nearly 3.3 million immigrants settled in California in the 1990s, helping to fundamentally alter the demographics of the state. Immigrants now make up more than 25% of the state’s population. Nearly 44% of all immigrants in the US arrived after 1990. Immigrants from Mexico total 29% of the immigrant population, and nearly 44% of the immigrant population in California.
Proponents of restrictions on immigration say that this new information supports their positions that the number of people allowed to immigrate to the US should be lowered, and that more skills should be required of those allowed to immigrate. Advocates for immigration say that the numbers indicate the importance of immigrants to the economy. Certainly, some of the census statistics show that immigrant families are becoming assimilated. The percentage of immigrant children between ages 5 and 17 who speak Spanish at home who also speak English increased by 12% nationally, and by 25% in California. For Asian children, the percent who are bilingual increased 38% nationally and 44% in California.
The following table provides information on immigrants as a percentage of the population of the states:
State | Total Population | Immigrant Population | Immigrants as percent of total 2000 population | Number of immigrants arriving before 1990 and percent of total pre-1990 immigrant population | Number of immigrants arriving after 1990 and percent of total post 1990 immigrant population | Alabama | 4,332,379 | 98,119 | 2.2 | 44,112 (0.5) | 54,007 (0.4) | Alaska | 607.583 | 33,275 | 5.4 | 19,869 (0.2) | 13,406 (0.1) | Arizona | 5,020,782 | 673,885 | 13.4 | 330,036 (4.1) | 343,849 (2.5) | Arkansas | 2,599,491 | 60,402 | 2.3 | 33,380 (0.4) | 27,022 (0.2) | California | 33,051,895 | 8,572,442 | 25.9 | 5,293,119 (37.6) | 3,279,323 (24.6) | Colorado | 4,198,307 | 368,864 | 8.7 | 165,885 (2.0) | 202,979 (1.5) | Connecticut | 3,297,626 | 332,041 | 1.0 | 213,543 (2.6) | 118,498 (0.8) | Delaware | 759,017 | 42,782 | 5.6 | 23,476 (0.2) | 19,315 (0.1) | District of Columbia | 536,497 | 70,581 | 1.3 | 30,439 (0.3) | 40,142 (0.3) | Florida | 15,593,435 | 2,655,476 | 17.0 | 1,552,465 (19.4) | 1,103,020 (8.2) | Georgia | 7,952,628 | 552,738 | 6.9 | 205,467 (2.5) | 347,271 (2.6) | Hawaii | 1,175,755 | 198,773 | 16.9 | 130,235 (1.6) | 68,538 (0.5) | Idaho | 1,262,458 | 62,659 | 4.9 | 30,496 (0.3) | 32,163 (0.2) | Illinois | 12,097,507 | 1,526,763 | 12.6 | 813,214 (10.1) | 713,522 (5.3) | Indiana | 5,902,333 | 184,556 | 3.1 | 92,200 (1.1) | 92,356 (0.6) | Iowa | 2,822,157 | 94,652 | 3.5 | 36,316 (0.4) | 58,336 (0.4) | Kansas | 2,606,470 | 81,935 | 3.1 | 36,932 (0.4) | 45,003 (0.3) | Kentucky | 3,926,964 | 86,571 | 2.2 | 29,497 (0.3) | 57,074 (0.4) | Louisiana | 4,333,010 | 100,275 | 2.3 | 60,570 (0.7) | 36,705 (0.2) | 
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