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Since 1980, immigrant population grew an astonishing 578% in the South
Washington ,D.C. (July 23, 2025) – A new Center for Immigration Studies report finds a record-high number of foreign-born residents and their share of the population in many states, and an enormous rate of growth over the last 45 years. The analysis uses decennial Census data and other government surveys to examine the size of the foreign-born or immigrant (legal and illegal) population at the regional and state levels from 1850 to 2025, with special emphasis on the growth since 1980. The most striking is the jump in foreign‑born numbers between 2021 and early 2025 – driven by the recent border surge – and reflected in sharp increases across numerous states.

From 1980 to 2025, foreign-born population growth has far outpaced growth in the native-born population, expanding an astonishing eight times faster nationally and more than ten times faster in 26 states. “This rate of growth has impacted everything from schools and public coffers to culture and politics,” said Steven Camarota, lead author of the report and the Center’s Director of Research.

Among the findings:
* In the first quarter of 2025, the foreign-born share of the population hit historic highs in 14 states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Numerically, the foreign-born population hit record highs in 31 states plus the District of Columbia.


* Traditionally, the American South received relatively few immigrants, but from 1980 to 2025 the foreign-born population in that region grew an astonishing 578 percent. The foreign-born population since 1980 grew 258 percent in the West, 199 percent in the Midwest, and 141 percent in the Northeast.


* The enormous increase in immigration can be seen in many individual states. In 1980, the foreign-born were 10 percent or more of the population in only five states. By 2025 this was the case in 21 states plus the District of Columbia.


* In 1980, only three states had more than one million immigrants. By 2025 there were 14 states with over one million foreign-born residents: California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Georgia, Massachusetts, Washington, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Virginia.


* Since 1980, the size of the foreign-born population has grown by at least 10-fold in four states: Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, and Tennessee. It increased at least seven-fold in five other states: South Carolina, Arizona, Utah, Texas, and Alabama. In an additional 17 states it increased more than four-fold.


* Nationally, the foreign-born population grew eight times faster than the U.S.-born population, but in 17 states the foreign-born population grew 20 times faster than the U.S.-born population from 1980 to 2025.


* The border surge contributed to very large increases in the number of immigrants in just the last four years in many states. From the first quarter of 2021 to the first quarter of 2025 the foreign-born population grew by more than one-third in 16 states.


* Numerically the largest increases in the foreign-born population from 2021 to 2025 were in California, up 1.4 million; Texas, up one million; Florida, up 828,000; Pennsylvania, up 433,000; Georgia, up 413,000; Maryland, up 396,000; Indiana, up 339,000; Massachusetts, up 327,000; and Washington, up 311,000.

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