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Immigrants entering in 2020 or later: U.S. states ranked

Measure: Share of immigrants who entered in 2020 or later (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Foreign-born residents by year of entry by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2020.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-14

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National value: 17.6 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 24.9 %
RI 12 %
DE 24.3 %
CT 17 %
NJ 16.7 %
MD 16.4 %
MA 20.9 %
VT 14.6 %
NH 15.6 %

Lowest: 11.3 to 16.4 %
Group 2: 16.4 to 19.5 %
Group 3: 19.5 to 22.4 %
Group 4: 22.4 to 25 %
Highest: 25 to 32.6 %

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. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Kentucky	32.6
2	South Dakota	32.2
3	Wyoming	29.9
4	North Dakota	28.7
5	Louisiana	27.9
6	Ohio	27.1
7	South Carolina	27
8	Iowa	26.6
9	Indiana	26.4
10	Alabama	25.1
11	Nebraska	25
12	District of Columbia	24.9
13	Tennessee	24.8
14	Utah	24.5
15	Delaware	24.3
16	Wisconsin	23.7
17	North Carolina	23.4
18	Maine	22.6
19	Arkansas	22.5
19	Mississippi	22.5
21	Missouri	22.4
22	Kansas	21.7
23	Montana	21.6
24	Michigan	21.2
25	Idaho	21
26	Massachusetts	20.9
27	Colorado	20.7
28	Florida	20.4
29	Texas	19.9
30	Pennsylvania	19.6
31	Washington	19.5
32	Georgia	19.3
33	Illinois	18.2
34	Minnesota	18
35	Virginia	17.9
36	Arizona	17.6
37	West Virginia	17.4
38	Oklahoma	17.3
39	Connecticut	17
40	New Jersey	16.7
41	Maryland	16.4
42	Oregon	16.2
43	New Hampshire	15.6
44	Nevada	14.7
45	New Mexico	14.6
45	Vermont	14.6
47	New York	14.2
48	Alaska	12.6
49	Rhode Island	12
50	Hawaii	11.5
51	California	11.3

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B05005: Period of entry by nativity and citizenship status in the United States. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of immigrants who entered in 2020 or later (%) (2020). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B05005: Period of entry by nativity and citizenship status in the United States; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-14. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-immigrants-who-entered-in-2020-or-later/

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