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More than half of the foreign-born inhabitants within the United States lives in simply 4 states — California, Texas, Florida and New York — and their numbers grew older and extra educated over the previous dozen years, in accordance with a brand new report launched Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

In 2022, the foreign-born inhabitants was estimated to be 46.2 million folks, or virtually 14% of the U.S. inhabitants, with most states seeing double-digit proportion will increase within the final dozen years, in accordance with the figures from the bureau’s American Community Survey.

In California, New Jersey, New York and Florida, foreign-born people comprised greater than 20% of every state’s inhabitants. They constituted 1.8% of West Virginia’s inhabitants, the smallest price within the US.

Half of the foreign-born residents within the U.S. had been from Latin America, though their composition has shifted previously dozen years, with these from Mexico dropping by about 1 million folks and people from South America and Central America rising by 2.1 million folks.

The share of the overseas inhabitants from Asia went from greater than 1 / 4 to underneath a 3rd throughout that point, whereas the share of African-born went from 4% to six%.

The report was launched as immigration has turn into a prime difficulty throughout the 2024 presidential race, with the Biden administration struggling to handle an unprecedented inflow of migrants on the Southwest border. Immigration is shaping the elections in a manner that might decide management of Congress as Democrats attempt to outflank Republicans and persuade voters they will deal with issues on the US border with Mexico.

The Census Bureau report did not present estimates on the variety of folks within the US illegally.

However, the figures present that greater than half of the foreign-born are naturalized residents, with European-born and Asian-born folks main the way in which with naturalization charges at round two-thirds of their numbers. Around two-thirds of the foreign-born inhabitants got here to the US earlier than 2010.

The foreign-born inhabitants has grown older previously dozen years, a mirrored image of some members’ longevity within the US, with the median age rising 5 years to 46.7 years. They additionally grew to become extra educated from 2010 to 2022, with the speed of foreign-born folks holding a minimum of a highschool diploma going from greater than two-thirds to three-quarters of the inhabitants.