Sentences with phrase «percent immigrant population»

The state also has a 20 percent immigrant population.

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Despite accounting for only about 13 percent of the population, immigrants now start more than a quarter of new businesses in this country.

The rate of immigrant business ownership stands at 7.2 percent for 2014, compared to 5.8 percent for the native population.

A report from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Center, for instance, looked at data from the Survey of Business Owners and the American Community Survey and determined that though immigrants make up 13 percent of the U.S. population in general, they make up 18 percent of small business owners, and that immigrant - owned businesses account for 14 percent of private sector employment.

In 2014, immigrants made up a little more than 13 percent of the U.S. population.

Although 63 percent of the 10 million Hispanic Catholics in the U.S. are native - born, neither they nor the immigrant populations from Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America have been fully integrated into American Catholic life.

There are 526,000 immigrants living on Long Island, making up 18 percent of the region's population and 20 percent of the economic output of Long Islanders, according to a study released today by the Fiscal Policy Institute, New Americans on Long Island: A Vital Fifth of the Economy.

«But now, from 2014 to 2015, fewer than 1,000 whites left, while 13,000 foreign immigrants moved in, a three percent increase in the foreign - born population.

«The borough's population has been growing at an annual rate of one percent since 2010, the highest of any county in the state, thanks to an influx of immigrants.

The 25th Council District, which includes Corona, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights and part of Rego Park, has a population that is 53 percent first − generation immigrants.

During the same period, the number of children in immigrant families also nearly doubled to 16.4 million, representing 82 percent of the total increase in the children's population.

«With one - quarter of older Mexican - American immigrants and 30 percent of Mexican - Americans born in the United States reporting substantial physical limitations, there is a clear need for providing all Mexican - American older adults with appropriate health care, particularly in light of the rapid growth of this population» says co-author Amani Nuru - Jeter, Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

Although 25 percent of Canada's population — roughly 10 million people — is over the age of 60, the population has increased 30 percent in the past 50 years due to an influx of immigrants from Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

The district serves an increasingly diverse population, 30 percent of whom are immigrants from Brazil and the Azores.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Over the past two decades, the Hispanic population has become the nation's largest immigrant group and has accounted for 56 percent of total U.S. population growth.

Undocumented immigrants comprise 3.5 percent of the nation's population and 5.1 percent of the nation's workforce.

The area has a high population of immigrant families, and more than 60 percent of students come from homes in which English is not the primary language spoken.

Its especially important to reach out to immigrants, whose children make up 20 percent of the school - age population in the United States and who may not know how to navigate the education system.

After México, no other country - of - origin accounted for more than 4 percent of the total population of children from immigrant families.

Modern families (blended, multigenerational, same - sex, single, immigrant, etc.) make up 70 percent of the U.S. population.

They also lead the way when it comes to higher education — despite the fact that immigrants make up just 12.9 percent of the U.S. population.

Chinese immigrants now make up around 2 percent of the total Belize population.

Though similar in number to Vancouver, immigrants represent a smaller but growing share of the region's population (roughly 23 percent).

In absolute terms, the number seems substantial compared to many other countries, but given that China's population is 1.357 billion, immigrants amount to only.06 percent of China's residents.

In each of these cities, immigrants comprise more than 13 percent of the population — and more than 45 percent of immigrant heads of households are homeowners.

FRANCESE: In the first decade of the 20th century, immigrants added almost 12 percent to the U.S. population, but during this decade they'll add less than 4 percent.