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

Measure: Share of foreign-born residents born in Asia (%). 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: 31.9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 23.2 %
RI 17 %
DE 34.3 %
CT 25.6 %
NJ 33.1 %
MD 30.8 %
MA 30.8 %
VT 29.8 %
NH 33.3 %

Lowest: 10.9 to 25.6 %
Group 2: 25.6 to 28.8 %
Group 3: 28.8 to 31.8 %
Group 4: 31.8 to 35.4 %
Highest: 35.4 to 77.8 %

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	Hawaii	77.8
2	Michigan	53.1
3	Alaska	51.1
4	Washington	46.1
5	Virginia	43.5
6	California	41.9
7	Mississippi	41.3
8	Ohio	40.8
9	Missouri	39.6
9	Pennsylvania	39.6
11	West Virginia	35.4
12	Wisconsin	35.1
13	Minnesota	35
14	Delaware	34.3
14	Nevada	34.3
16	New Hampshire	33.3
17	New Jersey	33.1
18	Georgia	32.8
19	Alabama	32.6
19	Oregon	32.6
21	New York	31.8
22	Indiana	31.7
23	Illinois	31.5
24	Montana	31.2
25	Maryland	30.8
25	Massachusetts	30.8
27	Iowa	30.3
28	Vermont	29.8
29	Kentucky	29.6
30	South Dakota	29.5
31	North Carolina	28.8
32	Tennessee	28.4
33	Louisiana	27.9
34	Kansas	27.5
35	North Dakota	27.3
35	Oklahoma	27.3
37	Arkansas	27
38	Texas	26.3
39	Nebraska	26
40	Connecticut	25.6
40	Maine	25.6
42	Colorado	23.8
43	Arizona	23.7
44	District of Columbia	23.2
45	South Carolina	21.5
46	Idaho	21
47	Wyoming	20
48	Utah	19.6
49	Rhode Island	17
50	New Mexico	16
51	Florida	10.9

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 Asia (%) (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-asia/

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