U.S. States with the Highest Foreign-Born Population Shares, 2024

U.S. foreign-born residents as a share of each state's population; %, 2024.

What the Data Shows

Foreign-born residents are compared across the 50 states for 2024. The measure is foreign-born residents as a share of the total population and is reported as a percentage. California has the highest estimate at 27.6%, 2.6 percentage points above New Jersey. Maryland ranks ninth at 17.1%, making the leading estimate 1.62 times as high; close estimates should be read with their reported 90% margins of error.

Data table

Unit: percent of total population · Period: 2024

RankEntryValuePeriod
1California27.6%2024
2New Jersey25.0%2024
3New York23.3%2024
4Florida23.1%2024
5Nevada19.9%2024
6Massachusetts18.7%2024
7Hawaii18.6%2024
8Texas18.4%2024
9Maryland17.1%2024

Sources

Source 1: 2024 ACS 1-Year Detailed Table B05002

Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau

Dataset/table: B05002

Units: counts with 90% margins of error

Date checked: 2026-07-15

Evidence: Provides the B05002 state estimates and 90% margins of error used to construct this percentage.

Data notes & caveats

ACS values are survey estimates with 90% margins of error. The ranking contains the 50 states only; District of Columbia is a federal district and Puerto Rico is a territory. The percentage denominator is total population, not a total formed by adding the ranked percentages.

Methodology

For each state, numerator components B05002:[13] were divided by the total population denominator B05002:[2,13] and multiplied by 100. Component margins of error were combined by root-sum-square; percentage margins follow the Census published proportion procedure with the plus-term fallback when required.

Source consistency notes

Every row uses the 2024 ACS 1-year product, the same detailed-table concept, the same state geography class and the same percentage definition.

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