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Immigrants born in Africa: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of foreign-born residents born in Africa (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Foreign-born population by world region of birth, 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: 5.9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 17.1 %
RI 11 %
DE 13.1 %
CT 4.5 %
NJ 5.8 %
MD 19.5 %
MA 9.6 %
VT 9.8 %
NH 7.8 %

Lowest: 1.4 to 4 %
Group 2: 4 to 5.8 %
Group 3: 5.8 to 8.9 %
Group 4: 8.9 to 13.1 %
Highest: 13.1 to 35.8 %

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	North Dakota	35.8
2	Minnesota	27.2
3	Maine	27
4	Iowa	20.2
5	Maryland	19.5
6	South Dakota	18.1
7	District of Columbia	17.1
8	Ohio	16.7
9	West Virginia	15
10	Kentucky	13.7
11	Delaware	13.1
12	Missouri	11.8
13	Rhode Island	11
13	Virginia	11
15	Georgia	10.3
16	Vermont	9.8
17	Indiana	9.7
18	Massachusetts	9.6
19	Tennessee	9.2
20	Pennsylvania	9
21	Nebraska	8.9
22	Montana	8.7
23	Kansas	7.9
24	Colorado	7.8
24	New Hampshire	7.8
26	Wisconsin	7.1
27	North Carolina	7
28	Washington	6.9
29	South Carolina	6.3
29	Texas	6.3
31	New Jersey	5.8
32	Michigan	5.7
33	New York	5.6
34	Alabama	5.1
35	Idaho	4.9
36	Mississippi	4.6
37	Connecticut	4.5
38	Arizona	4.3
38	Illinois	4.3
40	Oregon	4.1
41	Nevada	4
42	Arkansas	3.7
43	Alaska	3.6
44	Oklahoma	3.5
45	Louisiana	3.4
46	Wyoming	3.3
47	Utah	2.7
48	California	2.1
49	Florida	1.9
50	New Mexico	1.6
51	Hawaii	1.4

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 share of foreign-born residents born in Africa (%) (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-africa/

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