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Canadian-born Residents in the United States
2000 U.S. Census Data
According to the U.S. Census, 820,771 U.S. residents in 2000 were born in Canada.
• Canadian-born residents represented 2.6 percent of the United States' total foreign-born population of 31.1 million and 0.3 percent of the total U.S. population of 281.4 million.
• The seven states with the largest populations of Canadian-born were California, Florida, New York, Michigan, Washington, Massachusetts and Texas. Combined, these seven states constituted 57.2 percent of the total Canadian-born population in the United States.
• Nearly 30 percent (240,320) of the Canadian-born population lived in California and Florida alone.
• A majority (61.3%) of the Canadian-born residents of the U.S. in 2000 lived in the West and South.
United States |
820,771 |
100.0% |
California |
141,181 |
17.2% |
Florida |
99,139 |
12.1% |
New York |
54,876 |
6.7% |
Michigan |
49,515 |
6.0% |
Washington |
47,568 |
5.8% |
Massachusetts |
40,247 |
4.9% |
Texas |
36,802 |
4.5% |
Arizona |
26,323 |
3.2% |
Illinois |
19,098 |
2.3% |
Connecticut |
19,083 |
2.3% |
Oregon |
17,137 |
2.1% |
Ohio |
16,359 |
2.0% |
New Jersey |
16,333 |
2.0% |
Pennsylvania |
15,200 |
1.9% |
Maine |
15,199 |
1.9% |
North Carolina |
14,317 |
1.7% |
Georgia |
14,026 |
1.7% |
Colorado |
13,552 |
1.7% |
Minnesota |
13,183 |
1.6% |
Virginia |
12,732 |
1.6% |
New Hampshire |
12,397 |
1.5% |
Nevada |
10,690 |
1.3% |
Maryland |
9,019 |
1.1% |
Vermont |
7,912 |
1.0% |
Indiana |
7,756 |
0.9% |
Utah |
7,722 |
0.9% |
Wisconsin |
7,189 |
0.9% |
Tennessee |
6,981 |
0.9% |
Missouri |
6,215 |
0.8% |
South Carolina |
5,512 |
0.7% |
Montana |
4,550 |
0.6% |
Idaho |
4,542 |
0.6% |
Rhode Island |
4,015 |
0.5% |
Hawaii |
3,743 |
0.5% |
Oklahoma |
3,710 |
0.5% |
Kansas |
3,635 |
0.4% |
Kentucky |
3,464 |
0.4% |
New Mexico |
3,324 |
0.4% |
Iowa |
3,237 |
0.4% |
Alabama |
3,166 |
0.4% |
Louisiana |
3,140 |
0.4% |
North Dakota |
3,017 |
0.4% |
Alaska |
2,893 |
0.4% |
Arkansas |
1,788 |
0.2% |
Mississippi |
1,682 |
0.2% |
Nebraska |
1,587 |
0.2% |
Delaware |
1,544 |
0.2% |
District of Columbia |
1,256 |
0.2% |
Wyoming |
1,131 |
0.1% |
West Virginia |
1,074 |
0.1% |
South Dakota |
1,010 |
0.1% |
Regions |
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West |
284,356 |
34.6% |
South |
219,352 |
26.7% |
Northeast |
185,262 |
22.6% |
Midwest |
131,801 |
16.1% |
Source: 2000 U.S. Census; Migration Policy Institute (http://www.migrationinformation.org/USFocus/statemap.cfm)
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