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Foreign-born residents (percent): U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Foreign-born residents (percent). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Place of birth of residents by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-04

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National value: 14.7 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 14.8 %
RI 14.9 %
DE 10.7 %
CT 15.7 %
NJ 24.9 %
MD 17.7 %
MA 19.1 %
VT 5.4 %
NH 7.3 %

Lowest: 2.3 to 5.4 %
Group 2: 5.4 to 7.1 %
Group 3: 7.1 to 9.9 %
Group 4: 9.9 to 15.7 %
Highest: 15.7 to 27.2 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	California	27.2
2	New Jersey	24.9
3	New York	23.4
4	Florida	22.7
5	Nevada	19.4
6	Massachusetts	19.1
7	Texas	18.5
8	Hawaii	18
9	Maryland	17.7
10	Washington	16.6
11	Connecticut	15.7
12	Illinois	15.6
13	Rhode Island	14.9
14	District of Columbia	14.8
15	Virginia	13.9
16	Arizona	13.2
17	Georgia	11.7
18	Delaware	10.7
19	Colorado	10.4
20	Oregon	10
21	North Carolina	9.9
22	New Mexico	9.8
22	Utah	9.8
24	Minnesota	9.1
25	Nebraska	8.8
26	Pennsylvania	8.4
27	Kansas	8.3
28	Michigan	7.7
29	Alaska	7.6
30	New Hampshire	7.3
31	Indiana	7.1
32	Tennessee	6.8
33	Iowa	6.6
33	South Carolina	6.6
35	Oklahoma	6.4
36	Idaho	6
36	North Dakota	6
38	Ohio	5.9
39	Arkansas	5.7
39	Kentucky	5.7
41	Vermont	5.4
41	Wisconsin	5.4
43	Louisiana	5
44	Maine	4.7
44	Missouri	4.7
46	Alabama	4.6
47	South Dakota	3.8
48	Wyoming	3.6
49	Mississippi	3
50	Montana	2.8
51	West Virginia	2.3

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table DP02: Selected Social Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by foreign-born residents (percent) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP02; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-04. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-foreign-born-residents-share/

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