Average American: Foreign-Born Population Explorer
How much of the population is foreign-born?
Use Census ACS 5-year estimates to compare native-born population, foreign-born naturalized citizens, and foreign-born non-citizens across national, state, county, and city/place geographies.
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Nativity and citizenship status
Select a geography and location to compare native-born population, foreign-born naturalized citizens, and foreign-born non-citizens. This is ACS survey-estimate data, not an immigration enforcement dataset.
Census ACS 2024 5-year estimates
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Nativity and citizenship status, table B05001
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foreign-born not a citizen
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Data type: ACS population estimates by nativity, citizenship status, and place of birth.
Limit: Place of birth is not the same as ancestry or legal immigration status.
Official source
Census American Community Survey
This tool calls the Census Data API from the server and keeps the API key out of browser code. The first dataset is ACS 2024 5-year table B05001: nativity and citizenship status in the United States. ACS values are survey estimates, not immigration enforcement records, and margins of error are not displayed yet.
Open the Census ACS 5-year API documentation