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You missed San Jose's MSA (where there is a higher concentration of foreign born than the rest of the Bay Area):
San Jose-Santa Clara-Sunnyvale, CA MSA 176,435
However, most of those on the list aren't really much of a surprise. It would be also interesting if we can get a breakdown of where these foreign born are coming from in the world
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Though the numbers seem about right, I'm always most wary about International population estimates. Of all groups, immigrants are the least likely to report information about themselves and mostly likely to fly under the radar. It's not out of the question to assume that some of these numbers are ten's of thousands of people off.
It's also going to be interesting to see just where these International immigrants are coming from.
After looking over the data though, I saw a rather remarkable trend.
Los Angeles 2000-2009
Number of natural increase (Births minus Deaths): 1,104,129
Number of new International immigrants: 832,769
Number of resident population that left the area: 1,365,120
Adjusted population increase: 509,169
New York City 2000-2009
Number of natural increase (Births minus Deaths): 1,067,418
Number of new International immigrants: 1,116,151
Number of resident population that left the area: 1,962,055
Adjusted population increase: 746,357
Both cities are hemorrhaging residents, but immigrants are replacing them at almost the same rate. If it weren't international migration, both cities would have seen very significant population losses. I wonder how long this trend will keep up.
You missed San Jose's MSA (where there is a higher concentration of foreign born than the rest of the Bay Area):
San Jose-Santa Clara-Sunnyvale, CA MSA 176,435
However, most of those on the list aren't really much of a surprise. It would be also interesting if we can get a breakdown of where these foreign born are coming from in the world
Not quite. Miami is way up there. Also Philly is down the list compared to its total population.
Interesting list -- thanks for posting it. I think this is particularly interesting because -- although Philadelphia is lower on the list in proportion to its metro population -- it doesn't necessarily indicate the proportion of foreign born among the total of in-migrants.
For example, going by metro estimates, Philadelphia had a net gain of 281,094 people since 2000, but if 127,055 of those were foreign born, the proportion of foreign-born among newcomers is about 45%. That's pretty darn high, and it can attributed to the fact that Philadelphia is a relatively low-growth metro area with immigrants largely driving its current growth. This also applies even moreso to other metro areas like Boston, New York, San Francisco and Chicago. Yet a very high-growth metro area like Dallas is significantly different, where the proportion of foreign born among incoming migrants is: 26.8% (335,202 out of 1,251,427 total incoming migrants since 2000):
Thus, there are some underlying trends here that may be making some areas more disproportionately more comprised of foreign-born residents than others, irrespective of the hard numbers.
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