50 States: Immigrants by Number and Share
There are 48 million immigrants in the United States, making up 17 percent of the overall population. This includes all people who are living in the United States and were born in another country, irrespective of immigration status.
Around the country, the share of immigrants in the population varies from two percent in West Virginia to 38 percent in California. Below is a table to show where your state fits in.
This table also shows the number of non-citizens, who nationally make up about half (48 percent) of all immigrants. Of those, about half (48 percent) are immigrants. Among non-citizens are people undocumented, green card holders, asylum seekers, refugees, recipients of Temporary Protected Status and a range of other statuses.
Finally, the table shows three different estimates of the number of people who are undocumented in each state: from the Center for Migration Studies (based on 2022 data), from the Pew Research Center (also based on 2022 data), and from the Migration Policy Institute (based on a five-year average of 2015 to 2019).
At the national level, all three estimates round to 11 million total people who are undocumented—roughly half of the 23 million non-citizens. The states with the largest numbers of
Note, however, that we cannot simply divide the number of undocumented to get the undocumented share, since the methodologies for estimating the number of immigrants who are undocumented includes an adjustment for their undercount in the Census surveys.
Immigrants by Number and Population Share
